Tag Archive For: RAID

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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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cache, performance, security

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

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

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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RAID is no backup

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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EBS Snapshots

5 Ways EBS Snapshots Can Make Your Life Easier

Amazon holds a bulk of the cloud services market, thanks at least partially, to its significant number of available services. One of these services, Elastic Block Store (EBS), is particularly ...

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