As the use of flash memory for solid-state disk progresses, vendors who make SSD controllers are also worth watching. Fusion-io is one who just announced a major advance. John Webster Special to CNET ...

OWC is launching a new PCIe Thunderbolt expansion chassis today that provides the ability to take advantage of any professional level performance PCIe adapters (half-length PCIe 2.0 card up to 6.5″) ...

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 ...

Key Technology Corporation (KTC), a Hsinchu, Taiwan-based company specializing in the design of optical storage devices and related ICs, currently commands more than 50% of the domestic market for ...

Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...

The need to measure drive array cost-performance in terms of Input/Output Operations per second (IOPs) per Rack Unit or Megabytes per Rack Unit is forcing drive array vendors to allocate as many ...

I'll be setting up a fileserver in the not too terribly distant future. I'll be using RAID1, but I have yet to be able to find an answer to a question that has been plauging me...<BR><BR>I've been ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...