There are almost too many ways to skin the storage cat in the enterprise datacenter these days. HPC centers have it easy. They pick a single parallel file system and now maybe put a burst buffer in ...

One of my Hyper-V hosts rebooted over the weekend (Windows updates) and one Hyper-V guest never came back. Here's the physical host disk config I setup months ago: Disk0 (one volume C RAID 1 internal ...

Many of us are now shooting video in 4K/UHD resolution as opposed to HD. Whether we edit and deliver in 4K or not is a decision based on our commissioning requirements but either way, additional hard ...

Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

Any organization that’s serious about its data integrity uses storage systems based on RAID level 6 (that’s block-level striping with double distributed parity) which can tolerate the failure of two ...

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

Both flash and traditional spinning disk drives have to perform the same job. So what’s the difference, and why would you choose one over the other as you migrate to a modern storage environment? Read ...

Since 1998 when it delivered the first Direct IDE-IDE RAID 1 disk array subsystem in the world, Accordance has continued to provide different disk array products for over 10 years. ARAID not only ...

Unix Insider – — Diskless in Dodgeville Q: I monitor my disks with iostat, and sar, but these two tools don’t print the same numbers. There seem to be many measurements available but it’s not clear ...