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- RAID 1+0 is the Cadillac of RAID
- RAID 1+0 is the Cadillac of RAIDNo performance differenceFirst of all, most people tell me RAID10 (1+0) is better than RAID 0+1, but only in the sense that RAID10 has better degraded performance where one of the drives have failed. No one ever claims that RAID10 is faster than...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-09
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- Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)
- RE: Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap or even freeGreat post, Ed! Seeing how you outlined the cheapest way to get Microsoft Windows 7 there should be no reason why anyone would not want to upgrade now. Price is no longer an issue. This would be...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arrays
- RAIDfail: Don't use RAID 5 on small arraysDroboSo.. the article says not use use RAID 5 - then recommends that the consumer buys a box Drobo - which essentially just operates as a RAID 5 array when its full???? (put in 4 x 1 TB disks and get 3...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
- Maybe I was wrong about Mac Servers
- Maybe I was wrong about Mac ServersSo ZFS is the sole criteria for a quality server OS or not?Has data loss due the underlying file system really been the problem Robin and you are making it out to be?RE: Maybe I was wrong about Mac Serversye: Veritas VxFS indeed has...
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Anyone ripped their entire DVD collection?
- Anyone ripped their entire DVD collection?dvd collectioni have also been thinking about doing this, i have found that depending on how you are planning to stream the media you have to format it different ways. if you are using a windows media extender (xbox360) the vob files have to be...
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery
- Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job? Or perhaps you need some light reading material to help you get some sleep on the plane between consulting engagements â€" either way, welcome to the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- What your disk drive isn't telling you
- What your disk drive isn't telling youNo safe havenIt seems that our data simply have no safe place to reside anywhere. Hard disks are unsafe, DVD's are unsafe disk rot.....Come on, industry, give us a safe, reliable and enduring storage medium. How hard can it be?Greetz, Pjotr.Broken main page link,...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- Best storage strategies for the multimedia PC
- Best storage strategies for the multimedia PCCan FreeBSD or Linux use ICH Raid?I'm looking at building a NAS server for my video surveillance DVR at work. need lots of storage I am looking at rack mount cases and boards for this, my question is does the Intel ICH RAID only...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-26
- UPGRAID: Usage-Base StriPe ReplicatinG RAID
- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks RAID is the standard for large scale, fault-tolerant storage solutions. The various RAID levels combine space and/or performance optimization to meet the needs of the user. This paper introduces UPGRAID, which can be seen as a new RAID level built upon RAID5. The idea behind...
- White papers 2007-08-09
- Sorry about your broken RAID 5
- Sorry about your broken RAID 5Still trying to understand your argumentGranting that a URE rate of 10^-15 [1] means that the incidence of two UREs per array approaches unity once the storage system exceeds 10^30 sectors (10^39 bytes, which is a rather large array), what isn't clear is why this...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-24
- Death of a disk
- Death of a diskMy reccomendation....... to small businesses / people using external hard drives as a backup device is1) Only connect them when using them. Don't leave them on all the time2) Every twelve months, or whenever you hit 80% capacity, write the time period covered by the disk on...
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Is the Drobo 'storage robot' fact or myth?
- There's a new personal storage device that's been getting some rave reviews lately. The company is Data Robotics and they sell a device called the "Drobo" which is a USB 2.0 connected device that houses 4 hot-swappable SATA hard drives. Many online gadget reviewers, colleagues, and friends of mine were...
- Blog posts 2007-05-25
- Longhorn Server to be christened Windows Server 2008
- Longhorn Server to be christened Windows Server 2008Too late again!Mary Jo:As of 6:25pm CDT, Microsoft had already altered the web page to remove any references to "Server 2008".Sad.I agree. 2008 seems to make more sense than 2007.I'd rather have a much more stable build than a quick-to-release-to-manufacturing release of Windows...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-10
- Chunks: the hidden key to RAID performance
- Chunks: the hidden key to RAID performanceThe "i" got redefined by the industryThe "i" in RAID got redefined by the industry to mean "independent" because they got sick and tired of being questioned about their 500 to 1000 percent premium over identical hard drives on the market that don't carry...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-08
- (Gallery: Debunking RAID performance myths)
- (Gallery: Debunking RAID performance myths)REAL WORLD IT for George means BUY ONLY Microsoft Warez!!George, go back to the jungle you MS Shill!How about LARGE (200+GB / DB) RDBMsGreat article George... now I am concerned. We just had our RAID 5 SAN swapped out for RAID10 because of I/O bottle necks...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-04
- Comprehensive RAID performance report
- Comprehensive RAID performance reportHere is one way to look at it..Good Article!This shows the fundamental problem with raid 10. Everything acts as one volume. All the IO is shared between all the drives of the redundant mirror. Thus giving you one big expensive and slow volume. ...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-04
- Comprehensive RAID performance report
- IntroductionStorage is one of those things that we can never get enough of both in capacity and in performance. This article is going to compare a large set of RAID performance data and perhaps debunk some storage myths. I ran a large set of tests for my Intel...
- Blog posts 2007-05-04
- Setting up the 2.5 TB hot-swap array
- Continuing from yesterdays blog where I introduced you to the cheap 2.5 TB storage array, were going to look at how this is installed in to the PC. Once all the drives are attached, youll need to toggle on all of the drives using a paper clip. This...
- Blog posts 2007-05-01
- Windows Home Server Beta/CTP preview
- Windows Home Server Beta/CTP previewWHSI have been using this product for a month or so, and I love it. I had setup a file server with Ubuntu Server to share my music etc.... WHS makes it a point a click operation. Very cool. I've been suckered...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
- Microsoft delivers a new Windows Home Server test build
- Microsoft delivers a new Windows Home Server test buildViews from a testerI have been playing and utilizing Windows Home Server since Beta 2 released and I'm quite happy with the functionality and usability of the new Windows Server OS. It is basically a stripped down and revamped version of...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-19
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