Many of us are now shooting video in 4K/UHD resolution as opposed to HD. Whether we edit and deliver in 4K or not is a decision based on our commissioning requirements but either way, additional hard ...

If the inside of your Mac is no more mysterious to you than the inside of your sock drawer, an internal hardware RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array may be the perfect way to add lots of ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...

Any organization that’s serious about its data integrity uses storage systems based on RAID level 6 (that’s block-level striping with double distributed parity) which can tolerate the failure of two ...

There are almost too many ways to skin the storage cat in the enterprise datacenter these days. HPC centers have it easy. They pick a single parallel file system and now maybe put a burst buffer in ...

Both flash and traditional spinning disk drives have to perform the same job. So what’s the difference, and why would you choose one over the other as you migrate to a modern storage environment? Read ...

Disk array devices can use multiple hard disks as large capacity storage. The hard disk installed in the disk array operates physically using a motor and the like, and the built-in parts perform very ...

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) has relaxed its pricing on external storage software licenses for the newest high-end array the USP-V, along with its rebranded version from Hewlett-Packard (HP), the ...