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This information is also available as a PDF download. Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an ...

A redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is when you use multiple drives to achieve higher speeds or to ensure data is better protected. There are many types of RAID, and with two drives you can ...

Hard drives fail, and they do it much more often than we'd like to think. Even if you've set up automated hard drive backups, you're not necessarily getting the best backup bang for your ...

In the late 1980s, processing power and memory performance were increasing by more than 40% each year. However, due to mechanical limitations, hard drive performance was not able to keep up. To ...

Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

Ok, so I have an old Poweredge 1650 with the PERC 3/Di RAID controller. It stopped recognizing the second drive last night. When I go into the array management, it "sees" the middle drive, I can ...