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 ...
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 today's digital world we've all got data, and lots of it. Our libraries are also growing rapidly: where you used to get by setting aside a few bookshelves for your books, CDs, DVDs and VHS tapes, ...
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 ...
Overview: Home NAS adoption is growing as users seek alternatives to rising cloud storage costs, offering private, ...
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 ...