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 ...

QNAP have announced their latest network-attached storage device, the four-bay SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS. Capable of establishing various levels of RAID array for up to 2TB of total capacity, the SS-439 is ...

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 ...

Parity > RAID.

I have a Windows Storage Server 2003 running on 3x 500GB SATA HDD in a RAID 5 array on a PERC 5/i card. The problem is we need more storage space, and therefore I was planning on buying 4x 1TB drives.

Security, speed and stability aren't just factors important in large-scale enterprise storage, home and small businesses want that too. If cost is less of an issue than any of those other three, the ...

RAID 0 isn't worth it—unless you're backing it up every night ...

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 ...