Can I add an old hard drive to RAID sets on servers? In answering this question, let’s assume that the old hard drive used to be an internal drive within a particular host or was incorporated within a ...

Pick the wrong RAID level, and you might end up losing all your data ...

How valuable is your data? If your storage drive crashed, would it ruin your day? Your week? Your entire career? Only you can answer those questions for yourself and your organization. But I'll tell ...

Okay what are the benefits/drawbacks of having, say, 2 250 GB hard drives aligned together in "RAID 0", vs. a single, standard 500 GB hard drive?<BR><BR>I get the impression that RAID is somehow ...

Why hardware RAID is officially dead but the cheap cards are still a must-have for home servers ...

Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...

Many of you probably saw the RAID-0 Flash drive array that I did last year when I reviewed a bunch of USB Flash drives. If not, check out this page.<BR><BR>With this in mind, I am doing a Flash drive ...

Reader Liam Yates finds himself with two spare hard drives and one question. He writes: Over the years I’ve collected a couple of USB external hard drives that I’m not using. I wondered if I could ...