NAS and server technologies have evolved a lot over the last two decades, both on the software and hardware fronts. However, ...

Hardware RAID is generally not that useful anymore ... especially if you build the server with ECC RAM. It will take some study to set up ZFS filesystems yourself if you're doing it with something ...

On the other hand, hardware RAID opened a whole new door to reliability and performance for the server environment. In addition to this, hardware RAID servers are for the most part easy to set up ...

This Proliant server is a piece of impressive hardware designed to run 24/7, with a dual CPU option, eighteen RAM slots, and hardware RAID for HDDs; old enough that replacement and upgrade parts ...

My main server is hardware RAID 5 so the plan is to make the backup server somewhat less fault tolerant - I was thinking of putting two 500GB SATA drives in the thing and using Windows' disk ...

Hardware RAID is an attractive option for applications ... it is an attractive option to use on a Windows PC, a stand-alone server with all storage in a single server, and on a clustered server ...

If you've ever looked into purchasing a NAS device or server, particularly for a small business, you've no doubt come across the term "RAID." RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or ...

All of the server-oriented I/O performance benchmarks ... to get any kind of decent RAID performance, you had to buy a hardware RAID controller costing hundreds of dollars.

RAID 5 uses a parity-checksystem that lets the server reconstitute the contents of a drive that goes bad. Hardware-based RAID systems are pretty expensive and may not be necessary if your organization ...

After the first RAID storage server was built in 1989 ... still creates additional load on your computer's CPU. Adding a hardware RAID card moves that work off of your CPU and onto the RAID ...