Creating a software RAID in Linux is faster than Windows because it only requires a couple of console commands. In our example, we booted from a live Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ...

RAID, redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a system that employs two or more disk drives in combination, through hardware or software, for performance and fault tolerance. RAID ...

I finally got myself a pair of NVMe to fill the two slots on my motherboard, with the eventual goal to remove any remaining spinning rust*. Just because I can, the plan is to have my new main install ...

As a topic, backups is one of those subject likely to elicit as many answers as people you ask about it. It is as personal a choice as your desktop configuration or your operating system. So in this ...

Suppose you have a system that has RAID0 with 2 disks. This is used for an internal proxy, something like Squid, but take any RAID0 use for this question. Disk #1 goes bad, hosing the system, and ...

Ah, storage. Every PC needs it it, but your standard PC storage solutions suffer from two glaring frustrations. First off, storage performance tends to be one of the main bottlenecks in a typical PC, ...

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