I finally just got my system back up and running after 3 weeks of getting new parts. Worked out all the bugs. I just updated Win98SE with all the MS Critical Updates ...

Theoretically, if you have a file that is split on 2 drives it can be read simultaneously from both drives. If you defrag that array, I'd guess that the file is then combined into one contiguous file ...

If you're looking for a 2-bay RAID setup for doing either mirrored (RAID 1) or striped (RAID 0) storage or backup, what do you want? Something pretty and shiny, or something that looks like it can ...

Western Digital’s My Book Studio Edition II is an external hard drive that uses two drives, pre-configured as a fast RAID 0 (striped) array. Our test unit came with two 500GB WD Green Power drives ...

For example, if you created a mirrored RAID with a 300GB drive and a 500GB drive, 200GB of the 500GB drive would be wasted, because the drive would mirror only 300GB. Similarly, you lose any potential ...

Apple's Mac Pro computers have the capacity of holding up to four internal hard drives, and all Mac models support the use of external drives through either USB or FireWire. This allows for multiple ...

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 ...

RAID 10 vs RAID 50: What is the best way to configure a storage array with 16 1 TB drives and why? It is proposed to set up two these boxes. RAID 10 vs RAID 50: The RAID level you use will increase or ...

It seems like only yesterday when we were laughing at 32 bit storage and "gigabytes", "who would ever use that much space?" we asked ourselves? Now we have new forms of digital media such as Blu-ray ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...