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Topic: RAID 5

RAID 5 News

04 September 2008

3PAR adds efficiency chip to new storage servers

By Stephen Lawson, IDG news service

3PAR has added a specialised chip, which will offload a key function for storage efficiency from the main processors, to a pair of forthcoming server models. Read more...

Speed boost for external storage: 24 Sep 07
EMC rolls out large virtual tape library: 22 May 07
Fujitsu Siemens launches new SME servers: 23 Mar 07
Overland boosts tape libraries: 21 Mar 07
EqualLogic tiers up storage: 13 Sep 06
EqualLogic dives into pooled SANs: 31 Jul 06
Overland produces protected primary storage: 25 Oct 05

RAID 5 Blog Entries

24 January 2006

Knock, knock, knocking on Heaven's door

By Chris Mellor

Last year saw serial ATA (SATA) drives and products pour onto the market in a gathering flood. IP SANS are in a similar situation with product availability broadening rapidly. (See a 6-supplier group test here.) Intransa has just announced its IP2000 giving it a neatly delineated 4-product line-up:- Read more...

RAID 5 Insight

21 May 2008

Utility storage: Ready for a long haul?

By Sandra Gittlen, Network World

The distance between storage virtualisation and a utility-storage utopia is vast and full of what seem to be insurmountable challenges, as early adopters have discovered. Read more...

Blade servers vs. rack servers: 04 Feb 08
Can de-dupe data be used for compliance storage?: 23 Nov 07
Calculating carbon emissions: 12 Jun 07
Disk drives lack reliable failure model: 13 Mar 07
Disk drive failures 13 times what vendors say, study says: 02 Mar 07
Apples to apples - or oranges?: 21 Sep 05
Empty places at the new virtualisation table: 21 Sep 05

RAID 5 Briefings

11 May 2006

Storage over IP

By Chris Mellor

Zetera's minimalist approach to networked storage promises the most bangs for storage bucks. How does it work? Read more...

What is Time Limited Error Recovery?: 24 Nov 04
RAID 3 re-appears: 16 Sep 04
Get SMART about disk failures: 15 Apr 04
Don't be at a loss with RAID: 10 Oct 03

RAID 5 Interviews

13 June 2007

What DataCore thinks on a few topics

By Chris Mellor, Techworld

What DataCore thinks about file virtualisation, VMware, the openness of the SMI-S storage API, storage tiers, filesystems, 3PAR, and Traveler 3.0 Read more...

Shooting the breeze with Breece Hill: 24 Aug 05

RAID 5 Whitepapers

28 April 2006

Using RAID 6 for data protection

By Infortrend

RAID 5 doesn't protect against a double disk failure in a RAID array. RAID 6 does. How? This Infortrend white paper explains the difference. Read more...

Protecting Against Multiple Disk Drive Failure: 27 May 04

RAID 5 Product Reviews

21 March 2008

Synology Cube Station NAS

By Paul Venezia, Infoworld (US)

List price:
Pros: Great value for money; completely open; compact size
Cons: Base build lacking a few features - but are on the way Read more...

Adaptec Snap Server 720i: 18 Sep 07
Sun Fire x4600 M2 server: 13 Dec 06
Buffalo Technology TeraStation Pro NAS: 16 Jun 06
QNAP TS-401 NAS server: 22 May 06
NexonNAS1000: 05 Jul 05
BladeStore: 09 Jul 04
SGI InfiniteStorage SAN 2000 Server: 02 Jul 04

RAID 5 How-Tos

06 December 2007

Getting started with networking

By Ron Nutter, Network World

Setting up your first business network will seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be as hard as all that. Read more...

How to set up clustered Windows servers: 13 Nov 06
Network backup - disk-to-disk or tape emulation?: 30 Jul 04
How to ... plan your storage usage for optimal performance: 02 Jul 03
How to... get to grips with RAID: 09 May 03

RAID 5 Case Studies

19 June 2006

An NHS IT success story