Hard drives fail, and they do it much more often than we'd like to think. Even if you've set up automated hard drive backups, you're not necessarily getting the best backup bang for your ...

What is RAID 3 (redundant array of independent disks 3)? RAID 3 (redundant array of independent disks 3) is a RAID configuration that uses a parity disk to store the information generated by a RAID ...

Lately, when I look at the specifications of new mainboards and their configuration, seeing SATA RAID or ATA RAID on the board comes as no surprise. Many of the manufacturers are now offering their ...

RAID 10 vs RAID 50: What is the best way to configure a storage array with 16 1 TB drives and why? It is proposed to set up two these boxes. RAID 10 vs RAID 50: The RAID level you use will increase or ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

Yesterday, Intel Storage Matrix reported that one of the drives in my RAID 1 array was having errors. I'm trying to troubleshoot the issue and diagnose if there's something wrong with the driver or ...

I am having a problem initializing the drives for my RAID array. I deleted the old array which was 4x 500mb mirrored with one hot spare, and now if I go to the Initialize Drives section of the ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

When Apple released the new Retina MacBook Pro last October, it also marked the debut of Thunderbolt 2 in an Apple product. But with no Thunderbolt 2 peripherals available at the time, we here in the ...

I have installed four hard disks of 146 GB using RAID-5 (auto configuration) on an HP server DL380. On the disk space, it shows a total of only three disks. Is the problem that the other one has been ...