In recent years, organizations have continued to add software-based components to their storage infrastructure. This includes RAID to maximize storage capacity and reduce risks of data loss. Some ...

Boyfriend and I run a variety of things in-house - a web server, a file server, and several online multiplayer games that he's designed. We're building a new server (right now the non-game stuff runs ...

Another advantage of software raid is that it's not controller dependant which could eliminate a potential single point of failure. If you burn out your hardware RAID controller you need to find ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

What is hardware RAID (hardware redundant array of independent disk)? Hardware RAID is a form of RAID (redundant array of independent disks) where processing is done on the motherboard or a separate ...

SoftRAID 9 brings dual-parity RAID to direct-attached storage without a hardware RAID controller, including a new SSD-oriented RAID 6+ mode.

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

Another reason to prefer software RAID-1 is that I don't need to keep a spare instance of the hardware RAID controller around to cater for the case where the controller dies. I can simply put the ...