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Category Archive For: RAID
SSDs Over HDDs – the Admins Dilemma
It’s quicker, it’s lighter, it does not generate any noise and has a lower work temperature…Furthermore, it doesn’t have any mechanical, moving components so it offers you not only a ...
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RAID 5? RAID 6? Or Another AltErnativEE?
Updated 19/11/2021 Here we are again with the next part of our RAID series. This time we’ll be taking a look at RAID 5, RAID 6, and two alternatives – ...
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What is RAID 0
We published an article about RAID 5: “How does RAID 5 work? The Shortest and Easiest explanation ever” – now is the time for the whole series. We will try ...
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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 very costly to send hard drives for data recovery. Even with ...
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Random vs. Sequential explained.
Very often, storage product users do not know what kind of performance numbers to expect in real operations. Why do storage vendors claim such great performance when measured by an ...
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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 using RAID for redundancy and for performance. Thanks to RAID technology ...
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Enterprise Grade Fibre Chanel SAN in 5 Minutes?
I am not kidding. We were getting queries about the performance of our latest DSS V6 build 4786. So I needed to quickly set up a performance benchmark. It took ...
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How does RAID 5 work? The Shortest and Easiest explanation ever!
We all have limited time to study long and complicated information about RAID theories, but you may be interested as to how RAID 5 works. We made it simple for ...
Read More Bonding versus MPIO explained
There is plenty of talk about Bonding and Multipath IO, but it is very difficult to get solid information about either one. Typically what documentation can be found is very ...
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