The BC4410 four-port controller and BC4810 eight-port controller, like most entry-level RAID controllers, support RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10, said Mark Taylor, director of RAID product marketing at ...

I'm building a FreeNAS machine which has two internal SATA ports and a sil 3132 PCIx1 card with two eSATA ports. I have a 4 bay enclosure hooked up to the eSATA port. I added a 4TB drive to the ...

Here's our essential guide to all the different types of RAID setup. It's almost as if camera manufacturers are somehow dedicated to keeping hard disk manufacturers in business. By the early 2000s, it ...

While NVMe storage devices offer significant performance and reliability advantages over their platter-based counterparts, many Linux and VMware based applications continue to rely on older SAS & SATA ...

Since its implementation, advances in PCI Express technology were closely associated with gaming products, mainly video cards. The GPU business lead the charge for increasing bandwidth for the PCIe ...

RAID controllers are a lot of things to different people. Some like me, a power user, is able to tune the RAID block size for general use computing, balancing the small file IOPS with large sequential ...

Everybody says you need RAID 0 for speed. You don't.

I'm trying to track down how long it would take a Raid 50 array to rebuild. It would consist of two 7 disk Raid 5 sets with Raid 0 tacked on the end. 15k 6Gb/sec SAS drives. Each disk is 600 GB. Even ...

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 ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...