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, ...

EMC on Thursday announced its largest high-end array yet, offering hardware with a scalability range that allows it to be used in mid-sized shops as well as the largest enterprises. The DMX-3 array ...

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has relaxed its pricing on external storage software licenses for the newest high-end array the USP-V, along with its rebranded version from Hewlett-Packard (HP), the ...

If I’d had a stopwatch, I’d know for sure, but I’d swear that it took the field engineer less than a minute to replace the batteries in my FC 3510 disk array. The battery modules on these fiber ...

Many of us are now shooting video in 4K/UHD resolution as opposed to HD. Whether we edit and deliver in 4K or not is a decision based on our commissioning requirements but either way, additional hard ...

HP updated its StorageWorks XP Disk Arrays product line on Monday with the release of the P9500 StorageWorks Disk Array hardware, along with software and licensing options. The P9500 takes the ...

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Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. tomorrow plans to announce a petabyte-size storage array with native encryption, but some users with high security needs said they are uneasy about the possibility of ...

We had a drive die in a 4 disk RAID5 on a Dell Perc 4. It hosts our Exchange Server, I should have the replacement tomorrow. Does it make a huge difference if I rebuild the array in the bios (Exchange ...

Background: I have a file server running Windows XP Pro. It has three 500GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration via a Syba SD-SATA-4PI card. I have just over 900GB of data on this array. I normally ...

Data storage security covers a wide landscape, including legal compliance, e-discovery, user access control and the physical security of data storage media. In this article we will focus on ...