Relatively inexpensive secondary disk storage is gaining a significant foothold in corporate data centers, according to a survey of more than 1,000 IT managers that’s due to be released next month.

Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...

In the wake of new government regulations requiring better corporate record-keeping, three top tape library vendors have confirmed that they’re working to combine inexpensive disk arrays with their ...

The most common way to set up multiple storage drives is to configure a RAID array. Using RAID to combine multiple drives into a larger virtual drive will generally keep systems up and running despite ...

I'm about to add some much needed storage to the office NAS box. The machine is used by 4 users, and it's primary use is storing video projects created using Premier Pro CS4. Not heavy use by any ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...

Yesterday, Intel Storage Matrix reported that one of the drives in my RAID 1 array was having errors. I'm trying to troubleshoot the issue and diagnose if there's something wrong with the driver or ...

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 ...

EMC on Thursday announced its largest high-end array yet, offering hardware with a scalability range that allows it to be used in mid-sized shops as well as the largest enterprises. The DMX-3 array ...

On Monday, StorageTek will launch its BladeStore Disk System, which makes use of ATA disk drives from Maxtor to provide 800 Gbytes of backup storage, said Thomas Major, vice president and general ...

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