French data center and cloud provider Scaleway has retrofitted around 14,000 servers to triple their usable lifespan. In a recent blog post, the company said removing the physical RAID controllers and ...

In June we wrote an article about Adaptec's new Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection and explained how the company planned to introduce a revolutionary technology that would leave the battery protection ...

I recently picked up an intel scsi raid controller (in the Agora) to replace my current AMI. it really didn't need to be done, but the intel takes standard ecc pc100 dimms for cache, the AMI uses a ...

HighPoint has been around for many years and if you have been tinkering around with PCs for more than a few years you are already familiar with the company. HighPoint was one of the very first RAID ...

It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options. Direct attached storage (DAS) is one of the most basic types of storage you can ...

While NVMe storage devices offer significant performance and reliability advantages over their platter-based counterparts, many Linux and VMware based applications continue to rely on older SAS & SATA ...

I'm slowly assembling the components for a new home server. My plan for the system so far is as follows: The plan is to use the two system drives in RAID 0 for redundancy, and then build a RAID 5 ...

Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

Ah, storage. Every PC needs it it, but your standard PC storage solutions suffer from two glaring frustrations. First off, storage performance tends to be one of the main bottlenecks in a typical PC, ...

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 ...