This information is also available as a PDF download. Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an ...

ITworld.com – Imagine you’ve just received shipment of a new Sun server, pre-installed with Solaris 9 and ready for setup as a web server for your small company. Now imagine that you want to take ...

Ah, storage. Every PC needs it it, but your standard PC storage solutions suffer from two glaring frustrations. First off, storage performance tends to be one of the main bottlenecks in a typical PC, ...

The combination of Linux software RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) and LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager, version 2) offered in modern Linux operating systems offers both robustness and ...

A redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is when you use multiple drives to achieve higher speeds or to ensure data is better protected. There are many types of RAID, and with two drives you can ...

If you are installing Lion on a RAID array or other custom drive setup, you may not be able to enable FileVault and other advanced volume management features. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

I'm looking for some advice on how to debug a problem we're having with one server in which a RAID volume becomes inaccessible. For hardware we have two 3Ware 9650SE cards [1], each of which is ...

Addonics has come out with an innovative and compact size 4x1 Port Multiplier with integrated hardware Raid controller that's OS independent. It comes in the form of System version (PCI-form factor) – ...

ITworld.com – In last week’s column, we examined the process of setting up RAID volumes on a Solaris 9 server. The process is surprisingly straightforward when there are no file systems on the target ...