Category Archive For: Hardware

Summary of 2022 at Open-E

In a Nutshell: Open-E in 2022

2022 was an intense time for Open-E. Needless to say, it was not an easy year and we suppose many other businesses are familiar with the situation. Still, we managed ...

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SSD Testing

Step-by-step Guide on SDD Performance Testing

Your SSD-based IT environment encounters long load times, it is unresponsive, and generally, it slowed down so much that it is hard to keep your sanity? Well, such a situation ...

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Live demo of KIOXIA FL6 NVMe™ SSDs with Open-E JovianDSS

Watch a Live Demo of a Multi-Purpose Data Storage Solution by KIOXIA and Open-E

The long-lasting and fruitful cooperation of Open-E and KIOXIA Europe GmbH, a worldwide supplier of flash memory, SSDs, and software solutions, has resulted in releasing a certified solution that meets ...

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toshiba, hdd, temperature

How Does High Temperature Affect Your HDDs?

Importance of HDD temperature control The internal temperature of a hard drive is an important factor not only in its correct functioning but also when it comes to the reliability ...

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intel optane, 5800, joviandss

Open-E Recommendations for Intel® Optane™ P5800X in Various Data Storage Caching Roles

Three variants of the Intel® Optane™ P5800X have now been certified to work with Open-E JovianDSS: Intel® Optane™ P5800X 400GB Intel® Optane™ P5800X 800GB Intel® Optane™ P5800X 1.6TB Download the ...

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interview, kf, 2022, hardware-agnostic software

Hardware-Agnostic Data Storage Software: The Leading Solution For 2022

In 2021 we saw just how quickly and to what magnitude the data storage market could change due to a pandemic and lack of hardware. Let’s share some predictions of ...

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hardware, shortages, software

Vendor Lock-in in the Era of Hardware Shortages

Eoin Colfer once said “A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that’s as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.” This is ever ...

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data storage, hot spare, server

Why a HOT SPARE Hard Disk Is a Bad Idea

Updated on 03/08/2021 Due, in part, to the different views and opinions regarding the usage of hot spare disks in our previous post, we’ve decided to add an update for ...

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RAID 2, RAID 3, RAID 4

RAID 2, RAID 3, RAID 4 – What It Is, How It Works? The History Lesson

Updated on 20/09/2021 After RAID 0 and RAID 1 (with RAID 1+0 and RAID 0+1) it is time for RAID 2, 3 and 4. Here we present a short description ...

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RAID 3

What are RAID 1, RAID 1+0 and RAID 0+1

Updated 23/09/2021 This is the second article from our RAID series. We hope it shows what RAID is, its idea, and how it works in the easiest possible way.  We ...

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