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Hardware

RAID 0
Hardware, RAID

What is RAID 0

We published an article about RAID 5: “How does RAID 5 work? The Shortest and Easiest explanation ever” –...

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Open-E DSS V6 volume replication (DRBD)
Data Protection, Hardware

A few words about DSS V6 volume replication (DRBD)

We are sure some of you have thought about DRBD – about its use and operation. Here is some...

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Data Protection, Hardware

Rebuilds and Replication Against Hardware Failure Consequences

Hardware failure can be a show stopper for any shop without proper backups and hardware reserves. It can be...

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Data Protection, Hardware

Slow Network and It’s Impact on Business Processes

While you are using WAN network you may face the problem of slow connections. It may cause various difficulties...

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Backup, Data Protection

Backup it, lose it, restore it and stay calm – 10 basic rules for the wary

Life is full of imperfections – we all know it. Sometimes bad things happen to people for no particular...

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Hardware

How Much Storage Can You Squeeze to 4U?

Last week I visited WHD2011 (World Hosting Day) in Rust, Germany. As usual there was plenty of interesting news...

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Hardware, RAID

What you can expect from SSD?

Hard disk performance is limited by mechanical parts velocity and there is no solution for this issue. Servers are...

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Hardware, iSCSI

Shared storage for Linux servers – quickly and painlessly

How to provide access to shared data using Linux based servers and cluster file system? In this post we...

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