Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

RAID allows two or more disk drives to be seen by the operating system as one physical drive. This allows for fault tolerance on your computer so that if one drive fails, the data is securely still ...

RAID—redundant array of inexpensive disks—is one way of either getting more capacity or more data security out of your storage system. If you’re willing to commit enough disks, you can get both speed ...

An international group of scientists has produced some of the sharpest x-ray holograms of microscopic objects ever made. According to one of them, they improved the efficiency of holography by a ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

As a fundamental of data protection, Raid (redundant array of independent disks), has been around since the mid-1980s. The idea is quite simple; use multiple disk drives to enable data protection (via ...

For serious PC builders, speed is the name of the game. Too often, storage becomes a bottleneck that holds back even the beefiest CPU. Even with the advent of SSDs, leveraging a redundant array of ...

This information is also available as a PDF download. Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an ...

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