Abstract: Disk arrays provide data storage by combining sets of disks into one or more virtual disks (VDs) utilizing specialized control algorithms. A VD is a partition of such combined storage ...

A RAID-10 combines striping and mirroring: data is striped across a number of disks and each of the striped disks is also replicated once. A Doubly Distorted Mirror is a variant of a RAID-10. For each ...

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 ...

The topological spin textures in magnetic vortices in confined magnetic elements offer a platform for understanding the fundamental physics of nanoscale spin behavior and the potential of harnessing ...

Hard disk failure prediction research may save IT time and money Your email has been sent A researcher claims he's improved hard disk failure prediction. One expert says such research should rely more ...

IBM today announced its latest all-flash array, the V840 virtualized storage system with 1.6 Petabyte compressed storage capacity (320 TB total usable un-compressed flash capacity) in a single 6U ...

OWC is launching a new PCIe Thunderbolt expansion chassis today that provides the ability to take advantage of any professional level performance PCIe adapters (half-length PCIe 2.0 card up to 6.5″) ...