Due to the unique characteristics of flash, performance validation testing is immensely challenging and critically important; follow these best practices All-flash storage arrays (AFAs) are receiving ...

Nimbus Data Systems on Monday launched an enterprise data storage array based entirely on solid-state drive technology, promising gains in performance and energy efficiency. In addition, the S-class ...

All-flash array upstart Pure Storage has had a single target it has been aiming at since the company uncloaked from stealth mode back in the summer of 2011: Tier one disk storage in the datacenter. By ...

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 ...

Why do people think RAID means performance? George Ou, Technical Director at ZDNet and a fellow ZDnet blogger, has a great post about real life RAID performance - hardware vs software - plus some ...

There are six main types of RAID array architectures: RAID-0 through RAID-5. When combining RAID 0 and RAID 1 (sometimes called RAID 10), we actually have seven variants of RAID arrays. Each provides ...

Nimbus Data Systems today announced a new all-NAND flash storage array aimed at enterprise-class data centers that it said matches disk arrays on price, but outperforms everywhere else. Nimbus’s new E ...

Solution providers and their clients looking for ways to improve the performance of their storage infrastructures are increasingly turning to flash storage. The market for flash storage is booming, ...

EMC Corp. last week announced a bridging technology that lets its newest midrange storage arrays use lower-cost disk drives. The move is aimed at allowing IT managers to switch from tape-based data ...

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 ...

I'm putting together a storage array. I've got 3x250GB SATA disks, and can get my hands on a 4th one. I need to put in adapter card(s) to connect the drives since the mobo in question does not have ...