to compete with the new generation of higher-performance networked storage.. RAID settings of the SSII (Figure 11) are also found under the Advanced menu. The spanning option is a form of RAID 0, which treats the two internal drives as one big drive. The...

bays, we’d be more than happy with a pair of Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 SAS drives sporting 300 or 450 GB of space in a RAID 1 setup, and four 750 GB or 1 TB Barracuda ES.2 s in a RAID 10 setup. The combo is expensive, yes, but compared to an all-SAS or all-SATA...

support USB drives for storage expansion or backup. So if your appetite for storage is big or if you're looking for the added data security that RAID 1 or 5 can provide, the TeraStation could be just what you need. You'll need a fat wallet to get into the TeraStation...

Read/Write Speed and Summary. mybook mirror raid. Western Digital offers up a 2 TB desktop monolith at the pleasing price of less than 28 cents per gig. Meet your data's new bodyguard: The "Mirror Edition" My Book offers two flavors of RAID.. The Mirror Edition’s...

fast a processor as you can get). You tell me how big the most common file is, I'm beginning to be able to tell you which RAID implementation will provide the best speed. Figure 21 shows the strangest relationship uncovered in this analysis. As files get bigger,...

IOzone on other NAS devices, I feel comfortable saying that this isn’t the fastest performing RAID 5 NAS I’ve seen, but it’s not too far off the mark. The WD NAS from behind, showing off its two USB ports, network connector, power jack and a big...

a lot of capability for such a big, big price. Yet another big, glossy, desktop replacement notebook PC – but this one’s got horsepower and serious heft! The D90X also qualifies as big for several other reasons: weight, performance and expandability. Eurocom...

as well. Storage space can be sliced and diced in any number of ways, including a full-fledged RAID 5 array. Combine the total drive space into a single volume with RAID 0 for pure performance, or add fault tolerance by using RAID 1 or 5. Add more storage space...

Windows 2000 said it had found a new device (a RAID Controller) and was ready to install WinNT Promise MBUltra133 Lite Controller. The Promise RAID Function User's Manual said I should load Win2000 Promise MBUltra133 Lite Controller, but it was not listed as...

amp-hour battery. This is huge by notebook standards, but not so big when considering that this system has SLI graphics and two hard drives configured in RAID 0 mode. SLI seems a little extreme for notebooks, but this desktop replacement isn’t exactly designed...