It’s quiz time: what’s the single most important thing in your Mac computing environment? Is it the actual Mac model you use? Is it the size of the display attached to the Mac? The speed of the CPU?

In terms of RAID 1 or RAID 5 from Servers or NAS boxes. The opinions on data recovery from RAID-based devices seem to go from "easy" to "a very difficult job that needs to be done by an expert and ...

What is the maximum number of physical drives in a RAID 5 configuration? For example, will data recovery in case of drive failure(s) be practical if I have seven 146 GB drives? RAID 5 recovery: A RAID ...

It's not hardware RAID. The RAID is handled by the BIOS (firmware, still running on your CPU) until Windows starts to boot, at which point Intel's driver (Matrix Storage Manager, i.e. software) takes ...

I'm reminded that when I do what I do best and don't try to be all things to all people, I get much more accomplished. Interestingly, I've found that the same approach applies to server storage system ...

I’ve just had an ‘interesting’ couple of days. My high-elevation home office got clobbered by another memorable winter storm over the weekend, and although the local power grid is normally quite ...

As storage requirements and magnetic disk densities increase the need for reliable storage solutions also increase. This IP core, written in Verilog HDL, provides a small and efficient hardware ...

Of course. Here's how. As the comments on my recent post Apple's new kick-butt file system showed, some folks can't believe that software RAID could be faster than a modern hardware RAID system. But ...