As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...

HighPoint has been around for many years and if you have been tinkering around with PCs for more than a few years you are already familiar with the company. HighPoint was one of the very first RAID ...

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RAID doesn't have a brain of its own and cannot understand intent. So if malware on a compromised system is writing to the ...

The new Adaptec Series 6E RAID controller is currently targeting a storage and system builder market that currently relies on software-based RAID controllers, said Tom Flageollet, director of ...

A controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers became very popular for PATA, SATA and NvMe drives. See RAID. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

Network semiconductor maker PMC-Sierra today announced its first 6Gbit/sec RAID controller for both serial ATA (SATA) and serial SCSI (SAS) systems. The Adaptec Series 6E controllers double the I/O ...

Is this overkill? Yes. Do I want 8 x 8TB SSDs in my computer right now? God, yes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Have you ever ...

For a time, my main PC rocked a pair of 480GB Intel SSD 730 series drives in RAID 0 and I thought that was the bee's knees. It seemed like storage nirvana back in the day. My, how times have changed ...

Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

Has anyone actually done any benchmarks to compare performance? I've done some google searching and couldn't find anything concrete, just a lot of anecdotes and premature conclusions. There's not ...

It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options. Direct attached storage (DAS) is one of the most basic types of storage you can ...