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Hardware, RAID

Why a HOT SPARE Hard Disk Is a Bad Idea

Updated on 19/08/2025 Due, in part, to the different views and opinions regarding the usage of hot spare disks...

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Hardware, Tips & Tricks

NVMe Partitioning Guidelines – Open-E’s Best Practices

Are you struggling with the efficient management of the NVMe drives in your data storage system? We’ve got a...

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Backup, Data Protection

High Availability Non-shared Data Storage Cluster – Protected With Mirrors

Recently, one of our partners faced a challenge while designing a high-availability cluster with non-shared storage. The setup consisted...

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Hardware

How Hardware-agnosticism Enhances Data Storage Solutions

Having flexible, safe, and cost-efficient data storage solutions is a must for a company that wants to maintain and...

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Data Protection, Hardware

SSD, TRIM and Garbage Collection

One of the most significant features supported in Open-E JovianDSS Up30 is SSD-TRIM and autoTrim. These features improve the...

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Backup, Hardware

All-Flash Data Storage System: SAS SSD vs NVMe

Conversations with our partners, customers, or people we meet at branch events are a strong motivation and basis for...

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How To Protect Your Data Storage
Backup, Data Protection

Top 7 Protection Features for Data Storage

Time is money and so is the data – one of our colleagues came up with this quote and...

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