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Whether you’re looking to optimize a server’s performance or to defend against total data loss on a NAS box, you need RAID. But which level is right? Here is a guide for storage newbies. If you’ve ever looked into purchasing a NAS device or server, particularly for a small business, you’ve no doubt come across the term “RAID.” RAID stands […]
Read moreSetting up clustering on Windows servers is not as difficult as it’s often made out to be. There are some precise steps to be followed and all becomes clear. I’ve asked a number of people recently whether they’d installed clustering on Windows servers. Turns out that none of them had – though one had inherited a clustered server pair […]
Read moreStep 1: Open the “Server Manager” -> Storage -> Disk Management Step 2: Select the “System Reserved” volume Step 3: Right click on “System Reserved” volume and select “Add Mirror…” Step 4: Press “Yes” to start the disk conversion and mirroring. After the mirroring of the “System Reserved” volume is complete, you will see the Disk Management like the following: […]
Read moreExpanding the capacity of a server by adding new disk drives is a typical activity for administrator. In this article, let us review how to add two new disk drives to the DELL server and create RAID 1 using “Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller – PERC” configuration utility. This tool is also called as “PERC/CERC Bios Configuration Utility”. 1. Launch […]
Read moreIn simple terms, RAID is basically a way of combining a group of hard drives together to form a single “virtual” drive. The main benefit is not only to obtain a bigger combined space but also to have data protection by having redundancy. This redundancy is achieved by duplicating the data in the additional drives, therefore, if one drive fails […]
Read moreA short description of each of the six original RAID architectures. Introducing some of the common terminology associated with RAID and computer storage in general. Introduction In the late 1980s those smart folks at UC Berkley gave the world RAID. Known initially as Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, corporations soon changed this to Redundant Array of Independent Disks (likely to […]
Read moreMission-critical information, whether it’s your customer database or your Web server, needs unprecedented levels of reliability. One reliable tool that’s become more affordable in recent years is RAID—redundant array of independent disks. RAID combines several physical hard disks into a unit that the host computer identifies as a single drive. RAID can provide several advantages; the degree to which each […]
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