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 ...

ITworld.com – Imagine you’ve just received shipment of a new Sun server, pre-installed with Solaris 9 and ready for setup as a web server for your small company. Now imagine that you want to take ...

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, ...

The combination of Linux software RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) and LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager, version 2) offered in modern Linux operating systems offers both robustness and ...

First, let’s look at setting up a RAID configuration on an Intel X58 motherboard. In this case, I’m setting up two SSDs as a RAID 0 striped array. Setting up RAID 1 is similar; you just need to choose ...

If I'm understanding the description correctly, with the add-in PCI-e card that adds 4 x m.2 and the three onboard m.2 I can have 7 total M.2 drives and do some kind of RAID with the onboard chipset?

If you are installing Lion on a RAID array or other custom drive setup, you may not be able to enable FileVault and other advanced volume management features. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

I'm looking for some advice on how to debug a problem we're having with one server in which a RAID volume becomes inaccessible. For hardware we have two 3Ware 9650SE cards [1], each of which is ...

ITworld.com – In last week’s column, we examined the process of setting up RAID volumes on a Solaris 9 server. The process is surprisingly straightforward when there are no file systems on the target ...