However, this situation reminds me of a point I’ve made several times before both in articles and blog posts, regarding the inherent limitations of a hardware-based RAID approach. Had the drive ...

Configuring an array with a hardware RAID controller is fairly straightforward. If you’re using an add-in board, the first step is to actually install the card. Power down your system ...

However, the fall of hardware-based RAID over the last decade remains a major highlight in the professional storage landscape. These days, most NAS experts recommend ditching RAID controllers ...

As far as I know, you can't hot swap IDE drives, and as far as I know the only reasonably priced IDE hardware RAID controller was discontinued (the Promise controllers are actually software ...

It used to be that to get any kind of decent RAID performance, you had to buy a hardware RAID controller costing hundreds of dollars. A decent 8-port RAID controller capable of delivering anywhere ...

wherein the setup is done by connecting a drive to a motherboard via special hardware called RAID controller or they can also be implemented as software RAID, wherein the setup is done by ...

The specialized equipment means hardware RAID controllers are usually faster and more expensive than software RAID systems. I prefer to use a hardware RAID controller when possible because of the ...

(RAID in hardware often involves a battery-backed write cache, so even if the computer loses power or locks up, etc. the controller will finish writing out the data.)<BR><BR>RAID 1 reads tend to ...

I’ll use the term hardware RAID to refer to the use of specialized hardware and software, which can include controllers, custom drive assemblies, and housings. Modern NOS vendors, such as Novell ...

First, a proprietary hardware RAID controller backup battery had to be replaced with a regular NiMH battery pack. A bigger problem was that the server was unusually loud. Turns out, the dual GPUs ...

Today, RAID is fast and can speed up drive access on your Mac. Here's how to get started building your own, inexpensively. A Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) is a way to speed up your ...