2009

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 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 (the other being parity). In a RAID system…

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

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

Samsung told Computerworld US at the Storage Networking World show that its new SSD conforms to the new mini-SATA (mSATA)…

Three-phase electricity is rarely used for domestic purposes, the table below is only relevant to electricians, electrical engineers and other…

Look-up table (single-phase voltage, frequency and plug/sockets) There are 214 countries listed below. 175 of the countries mentioned use 220-240…

TYPE M plugs used almost exclusively in South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho This plug resembles the Indian type D plug,…

Traditional non-virtualized servers and desktops will load and execute hundreds, even thousands, of individual files such as operating-system kernel files,…