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Why hardware RAID is officially dead but the cheap cards are still a must-have for home servers ...

I just built a brand new system based on Ars Technica's Hot Rod, with the following components:<BR><BR>Intel Core 2 Duo E6600<BR>Asus P5BD-WiFi, original BIOS<BR>2Gb (2 x 1Gb) OCZ Platinum DDR2 ...

lots of the lilo type stuff is for if you want to boot off of a harddrive on the 'raid' card (it's not really real real raid, it's fake raid, but whatever, you dont' want it so it doesn't matter).

The new Adaptec Series 6E RAID controller is currently targeting a storage and system builder market that currently relies on software-based RAID controllers, said Tom Flageollet, director of ...

The BC4410 four-port controller and BC4810 eight-port controller, like most entry-level RAID controllers, support RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10, said Mark Taylor, director of RAID product marketing at ...

French data center and cloud provider Scaleway has retrofitted around 14,000 servers to triple their usable lifespan. In a recent blog post, the company said removing the physical RAID controllers and ...

In its first new product launch since acquiring Adaptec last spring, PMC-Sierra announced its new Series 6 line of 6Gbps raid controllers. In its first new product launch since acquiring Adaptec last ...

A: The specialized equipment means hardware RAID controllers are usually faster and more expensive than software RAID systems. I prefer to use a hardware RAID controller when possible because of the ...

RAID, or “redundant array of independent disks,” uses redundancy to provide a more robust disk-drive array capable of operation even with the loss of a drive (Fig. 1). RAID 1 replicates data with a 50 ...