ITworld.com – Imagine you’ve just received shipment of a new Sun server, pre-installed with Solaris 9 and ready for setup as a web server for your small company. Now imagine that you want to take ...

My standard drive setup includes an SSD with the OS, apps, and an admin account; and a separate HD with two partitions. The larger, outer partition has my main user account and all associated files ...

SoftRAID (http://www.softraid.com) has released SoftRAID 5. The software replaces the functionality of Apple’s RAID driver. With version 5, users can create RAID 4 ...

The great thing about creating RAID volumes in Linux is that it’s so easy. RAID is really important for servers, and like most server software on Linux, it gets a lot of development attention. In our ...

First, let’s look at setting up a RAID configuration on an Intel X58 motherboard. In this case, I’m setting up two SSDs as a RAID 0 striped array. Setting up RAID 1 is similar; you just need to choose ...

Businesses can set up a redundant array of independent disks, or RAID, configuration to duplicate data on a device, protect against data failure or improve write performance on a volume. Some ASUS ...

RAID, redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a system that employs two or more disk drives in combination, through hardware or software, for performance and fault tolerance. RAID ...

ITworld.com – In last week’s column, we examined the process of setting up RAID volumes on a Solaris 9 server. The process is surprisingly straightforward when there are no file systems on the target ...