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Data Caching, Performance and Security
Updated 11/04/2022 I guess that all of us know that caching the data usually increases performance, but I wonder if all of us are aware of the risk that caching ...
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RAID 5: How does it work?
Updated 23/09/2021 A few years ago, we published an article ‘How does RAID 5 work? The shortest and easiest explanation ever’. We have to admit that this article enjoyed great ...
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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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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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Why RAID is Not a Backup
Last update: July 05, 2021 Today I would like to discuss the topic of RAID – more specifically backup issues. In the blog post title, I proposed a daring thesis ...
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Binary Powers or Formatted Capacity Confusion
Last update: July 05, 2021 From time to time, some meticulous customer asks us how come a fresh formatted hard disk or RAID array volume is smaller than the nominal ...
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ZFS Essentials – Data Integrity & RAIDZ
Today we continue the series of articles that aims at presenting the basics of the ZFS. In today’s article we’re further discussing this topic, focusing on the notions of data ...
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ZFS Essentials – Introduction to ZFS
ZFS stands for Zettabyte File System and is a file system originally developed by Sun Microsystems for building next-generation NAS solutions with better security, reliability, and performance. ZFS was designed ...
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Data security risks and Open-E JovianDSS countermeasures
Nowadays, it’s all about the data. Continuous and uninterrupted data availability is a must for all businesses. Unfortunately, there will always be a risk of sudden accidents that can make ...
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Why is Open-E JovianDSS a perfect storage solution for VMware?
There are plenty of storage solutions on the market, but not all of them are noteworthy, as the most common solutions usually consist of data storage only. Additional data protection ...
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