I've got a RAID-6 array with ten Seagate 2TB NAS drives here. One of the drives started throwing medium errors after a reboot last night, so I'm going to replace it. I can't find the Seagate 2TB NAS ...

The continued data explosion has necessitated a mix of new and old technologies to address the increasing pressure on IT departments to handle a massive influx of data. Tape has spent fifty years in ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. We have covered plenty of NAS HDDs here at TweakTown, and the reason is simple: more and more users are purchasing NAS units every day. The expansion of ...

Apple offers a couple of software RAID solutions for people interested in either creating a larger disk out of two, or mirroring two disks together for data redundancy in the event of a drive failure.

Tuning Raid performance has the air of a black art to storage administrators, with the perception that it can do more harm than good. Most consider the job done once the Raid level is selected. But, ...

According to Louwrentius, the 'myth' that 'the increase in HDD capacity has increased the possibility that the RAID array will be destroyed during RAID rebuilding' is spreading on the Internet. In ...

The only absolute requirement for matching drive specs in a RAID 10 array is that the drives must be of the same architecture, e.g., all SAS or SATA. Mixing and matching drives of differing ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

I just installed a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (750 GB, IDE), and when I first tried to format it, it wouldn't initialize. The error report said the following: dmio ...

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, ...