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RAID 2, RAID 3, RAID 4 – What It Is, How It Works? The History Lesson
Hardware, Open-E JovianDSS

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 and how it works?
Data Protection, Hardware

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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Intel® Optane™ with 3D XPoint technology explained
Hardware

Intel® Optane™ with 3D XPoint technology explained

Intel® Optane™ is a line of products based on a 3D XPoint technology that makes it significantly faster than typical NAND-based flash memories in terms of both access times and ...

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RAID is no backup
Backup, Open-E JovianDSS

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
RAID

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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Hardware Compression in a Backup With Tape Drives
Backup, Hardware

Hardware Compression in a Backup With Tape Drives

Last update: July 02, 2021 Most present tape drives include a function called hardware compression. This makes data compression available to the magnetic tape by a drive. In many cases, ...

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Open-E JovianDSS, ZFS Data Storage

To Deduplicate or Not to Deduplicate ?

Updated 19/11/2021 How Deduplication Works Deduplication, a feature we have in Open-E JovianDSS, sounds very useful and many storage marketing enthusiasts believe they cannot live without it. Admittedly, it does ...

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Open-E JovianDSS with Kubernetes support
Open-E JovianDSS, ZFS Data Storage

Open-E JovianDSS with Kubernetes support

The Kubernetes platform is currently one of the dynamically implanted technologies on the market. In the previous article, we discussed the difference between managing Kubernetes GKE VS EKS services. A ...

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