This was among the driving forces behind the development of the Serial ATA standard, which showed potential to address these issues. Now in its second revision, SATA is delivering what system builders ...

Storage spaces is pretty rad and works fine as a simple standalone software raid solution, or a multi-tiered hybrid storage system. And now with storage spaces direct, apparently clustered storage. I ...

Parity > RAID.

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. It's not the fastest NAS, nor does it include many advanced features, but the WD ...

I'm slowly assembling the components for a new home server. My plan for the system so far is as follows: The plan is to use the two system drives in RAID 0 for redundancy, and then build a RAID 5 ...

RAID 0 isn't worth it—unless you're backing it up every night ...

The server board has a total of 48 PCIe Gen 3 lanes that can be accessed through the two brown-coloured riser slots. Two riser-cards slot into these and each offers a trio of x8 PCIe Gen 3 slots into ...