This was among the driving forces behind the development of the Serial ATA standard, which showed potential to address these issues. Now in its second revision, SATA is delivering what system builders ...

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

WD's latest four-bay NAS server, the My Cloud EX4, is a lot more than four single-volume My Cloud units put together. It's not the fastest NAS, nor does it include many advanced features, but the WD ...

Another major advantage of an HBA is how naturally it scales. Consumer motherboards usually top out at six to eight SATA ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

I'm slowly assembling the components for a new home server. My plan for the system so far is as follows: The plan is to use the two system drives in RAID 0 for redundancy, and then build a RAID 5 ...

As cloud storage gets pricier and data-heavy lifestyles stretch free space, users are looking for alternatives such as ...

LSI will use next week's Microsoft TechEd conference to unveil a new solution that allows high-availability storage clusters to be built with commodity hardware and Microsoft's Windows Server 2012.

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 ...