Category Archive For: RAID

People at the meeting in the office happy about centralized data storage infrastructure results - Cover of the Open-E article

The Power of Centralized Data Storage Infrastructure

Data fragmentation is one of the biggest challenges for any enterprise company whose work involves processing and sharing information. It creates data silos that obstruct the efficiency of various departments ...

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Open-E Data Storage Solutions for Gaming Industry

We are fresh off of World Gaming Day, so it is a great opportunity to talk about something that most gamers don’t think about on a daily basis, yet what ...

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data storage specialists working on the best solution for protecting their company data with Open-E JovianDSS

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 it is basically a perfect answer to the question: why should ...

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Non-shared Storage High Availability Cluster – Protected With Mirrors

Deploying the High Availability – Queries and Doubts Recently, one of our partners struggled with the problem of designing a Non-shared Storage High Availability Cluster consisting of two nodes stretched ...

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RAID Choice

Which RAID Serves You Best – Speed, Protection, and Storage in Data Management

Nowadays, constant data access is a basis of many industries to ensure fluid operations. Lack of such access can result in a loss of credibility among customers, a complete halt ...

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Hardware vs. software RAID

Is it worth using hardware RAID controllers with a ZFS-based Open-E JovianDSS?

Our support experts often hear the question if it’s ok to use RAID controllers with the ZFS-based Open-E JovianDSS data storage appliances. We decided to answer this question in the ...

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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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Open-E JovianDSS Up29r1 Is Now Available & Can Support a Number of New Hardware Options!

This latest version of Open-E JovianDSS, Up29r1, is aimed primarily at providing customers with a wider range of hardware options to choose from than ever before, something that’s very important ...

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The Fundamentals of RAID

The Fundamentals of RAID

This is a Viking. He has a helmet. The helmet has no horns. Viking helmets didn’t have horns. He has full armor. Vikings wore full armor just like everyone else ...

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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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