It’s quiz time: what’s the single most important thing in your Mac computing environment? Is it the actual Mac model you use? Is it the size of the display attached to the Mac? The speed of the CPU?

Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...

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

We have had quite a few discussions about the differences between hardware and software RAID and I am hoping I can get some input on the topic. For instance let's say I had 10 TB I wanted to mirror as ...

It's not hardware RAID. The RAID is handled by the BIOS (firmware, still running on your CPU) until Windows starts to boot, at which point Intel's driver (Matrix Storage Manager, i.e. software) takes ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...

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 ...

Of course. Here's how. As the comments on my recent post Apple's new kick-butt file system showed, some folks can't believe that software RAID could be faster than a modern hardware RAID system. But ...

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TweakTown may also earn commissions from other affiliate partners at no extra cost to you. HighPoint's RocketStor 6414AS represents a ton of ...

San Diego, Calif. &#151 Applied Micro Circuits Corp. has beefed-up its PowerPC processor line with two new versions that offer both RAID 5 and RAID 6 functionality. Both the PowerPC 440SP and 440SPe ...

It wasn't that long ago that we were all using regular old spinny disks for storage. Time was, you really wanted to use dedicated hardware for RAID arrays to get the best performance. Plugging them ...

After months of waiting and speculation, Intel on Monday finally clarified just how its highly controversial RAID system, VROC, will roll out. VROC, which debuted at Computex and stands for Virtual ...