This was among the driving forces behind the development of the Serial ATA standard, which showed potential to address these issues. Now in its second revision, SATA is delivering what system builders ...

Sure, you can now get a terabyte of networked attached storage for under $1,000. But will that price buy you RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, and 5? Or an 8-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet LAN switch? Or built-in ...

Storage spaces is pretty rad and works fine as a simple standalone software raid solution, or a multi-tiered hybrid storage system. And now with storage spaces direct, apparently clustered storage. I ...

The server board has a total of 48 PCIe Gen 3 lanes that can be accessed through the two brown-coloured riser slots. Two riser-cards slot into these and each offers a trio of x8 PCIe Gen 3 slots into ...

Pick the wrong RAID level, and you might end up losing all your data ...

I would like to have two servers with two different storage configurations, but similar, if not the same, base hardware and controller. First server: 250GB x 3+1 SATA RAID-5 (SBS 2008 Premium server ...

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 ...

Editors' note: This post is part of an ongoing series. For the other parts, check out the related stories. Now that you have some ideas about internal storage vs. memory after reading Part 1, here in ...