Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today announced a new Expandable SATA disk array that offers RAID 6 dual parity data protection. The company’s FlashDisk SX-3498R ...

Why do people think RAID means performance? George Ou, Technical Director at ZDNet and a fellow ZDnet blogger, has a great post about real life RAID performance - hardware vs software - plus some ...

I'm putting together a storage array. I've got 3x250GB SATA disks, and can get my hands on a 4th one. I need to put in adapter card(s) to connect the drives since the mobo in question does not have ...

Dell's latest update to the Compellent Storage Center includes a novel approach to tiered SSDs, but it comes with caveats The high speed of flash storage often makes it easy to justify its high price.

Going through the BIOS menu afterward I noticed that the default for Advanced Options > Drive Write Cache is "Disabled". Does this mean that all the drivex in the box (which are attached to the ...

When it comes to storage, random access memory (RAM) remains the best - in terms of speed - that money can buy, at least until someone comes up with user-installed HBM (high bandwidth memory). However ...

The release of Pure Storage's arrays comes after trials by customers of over 100 of its beta units, said Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of products for the Mountain View, Calif.-based company.

Nimbus Data Systems on Monday launched an enterprise data storage array based entirely on solid-state drive technology, promising gains in performance and energy efficiency. In addition, the S-class ...

The rising tide of digital data and the torrent of applications moving to the cloud, virtualization, and big data and analytics have enterprises struggling to find the necessary performance with their ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...

Due to the unique characteristics of flash, performance validation testing is immensely challenging and critically important; follow these best practices All-flash storage arrays (AFAs) are receiving ...