Am contemplating an HP DL380 G7 with the standard P410/512MB FBWC RAID controller. Most of the drives will be the OEM HP 500GB SATA drives in RAID1 arrays holding VHDs for a Hyper-V host. I am ...

I just added 2 new 1TB disks to my desktop and like an idiot I assumed creatign mirrored array would be simple, apparently not.<BR><BR>I am a tad confused, probably by two many acronyms for me to keep ...

OK, there’s this thing geeks like to do that makes absolutely no sense, trying something just to try it. Like installing Windows ’95 on an Android Wear watch. I mean why? Why would anyone want to do ...

Apple offers a couple of software RAID solutions for people interested in either creating a larger disk out of two, or mirroring two disks together for data redundancy in the event of a drive failure.

Hard drives fail, and they do it much more often than we'd like to think. Even if you've set up automated hard drive backups, you're not necessarily getting the best backup bang for your ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

The home lab ecosystem has a bunch of fascinating utilities that, if properly configured, can take your setup to the next level. That said, many of these can be double-edged swords, and if you’re not ...

Intel's "Optane" next-gen phase-change memory is set to forever change the storage industry. What is Optane? Intel calls their 3D XPoint technology "Optane." Optane consists of 3D XPoint memory, Intel ...