My freshly-upgraded ubuntu 8.04 machine has three hard drives in it: a 250 GB drive for the system itself and two 750 GB drives. My plan is to make the two big drives into a RAID1 array for shared ...

In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...

I'm trying to decide how best to use a pair of 4TB external USB3 disks in my file server. At this point I've pulled one of the disks from it's enclosure and installed it in the file server. Now I'm ...

RAID 5 explained: RAID 5 sees the distribution of parity information between all drives in the RAID set and is resilient against the failure of a single disk. So, how does RAID 5 share data in a 10 MB ...

What is FreeNAS you say? Put simply, it's is an operating system based on FreeBSD that brings with it a snazzy web interface for management, and all the protocols you need to share files between ...

ZFS is one of the most popular options, as it’s reliable enough for beginners while offering a boatload of features for hardcore data hoarders. After all, it’s armed with terrific self-healing ...

Sure, you can now get a terabyte of networked attached storage for under $1,000. But will that price buy you RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, and 5? Or an 8-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet LAN switch? Or built-in ...

WD's latest four-bay NAS server, the My Cloud EX4, is a lot more than four single-volume My Cloud units put together. In addition to having all the goodies of its predecessor, the new EX4 server has ...