One of my Hyper-V hosts rebooted over the weekend (Windows updates) and one Hyper-V guest never came back. Here's the physical host disk config I setup months ago: Disk0 (one volume C RAID 1 internal ...

Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...

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 ...

There are almost too many ways to skin the storage cat in the enterprise datacenter these days. HPC centers have it easy. They pick a single parallel file system and now maybe put a burst buffer in ...

Most RAID levels employ striping, it is a term used to describe when individual files are split and written to more than one disk. Striping is the way that RAID gets around the performance limitation ...

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 ...

The 1U-format rack-mounted Gateway 9415 server, which is designed for database or Web server chores, supports up to two Intel 64-bit Xeon processors, can pack as much as 8GB of memory, and provides ...