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?

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Boyfriend and I run a variety of things in-house - a web server, a file server, and several online multiplayer games that he's designed. We're building a new server (right now the non-game stuff runs ...

Akitio’s SK-2520 U3.1 is a portable diskless enclosure that can be populated with two SATA SSDs. It results in a relatively quick RAID-enabled drive that can be powered directly via USB-C. Should Mac ...

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 ...

Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyone's attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. It's ...

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 ...