October 2009

RAID regions Resizing

A region in the RAID is the amount of space that is available for the storage of the data. The…

RAID costs

The many benefits of RAID do not come without some costs. (This is self-evident simply by the fact that most…

RAID Limitations/Disadvantages

There are many things RAID can’t do. One very dangerous phenomenon that is sometimes exhibited by those who are using…

RAID Benefits/Advantages

RAID really does offer a wealth of significant advantages that would be attractive to almost any serious PC user. (Unfortunately,…

Parity

Mirroring is a data redundancy technique used by some RAID levels, in particular RAID level 1, to provide data protection…

Striping

The main performance-limiting issues with disk storage relate to the slow mechanical components that are used for positioning and transferring…

Duplexing is an extension of mirroring

Duplexing is an extension of mirroring that is based on the same principle as that technique. Like in mirroring, all…

Mirroring is one of the two data redundancy techniques used in RAID

Mirroring is one of the two data redundancy techniques used in RAID (the other being parity). In a RAID system…

Physical and Logical Arrays and Drives

The fundamental structure of RAID is the array. An array is a collection of drives that is configured, formatted and…

Toshiba mSATA SSDs

The SATA-IO working group has recently announced a new standard called mini-SATA or mSATA in an effort to standardize the…