Do you love your data as much as your MacBook®? Well, this is the article (and software) for you. Apple Time Machine® is backup software developed by Apple® Inc. and was first implemented on Mac OS® 10.5 (Leopard®). It cares about your data – your funny photos, important documents or MP3s – no matter what. It helps to store them in a safe way, so even if your expensive, unique and perfect MacBook® Pro will [...]

Want to reduce energy costs and the risk of possible data loss? A dynamic increase of data volumes leads to greater the hardware requirements and greater power consumption – forces us to search for new solutions that can reduce the costs associated with this. So, every new chance to significantly reduce energy costs because of hardware power usage and cooling requirements is more than welcome in most organizations. The same goes for every additional possibility [...]

After RAID 0 and RAID 1 (with RAID 1+0 and RAID 0+1) it is time for RAID 2, 3 and 4. Here we present a small description of the mentioned levels. We hope it will outline a picture of the functionality of these solutions. Although the article is a kind of history lesson – these solutions are no longer used – it is good to be aware of the origins of modern storage technologies. RAID [...]

This is the second article from our RAID series. We hope it shows – in the easiest possible way – what RAID is, the idea of it and how it works.  We wrote about RAID 0. Now is the time for RAID 1, RAID 0+1 and RAID 1+0. What is RAID 1 RAID 1 (stripping or mirroring) – the basic idea of such a solution is the replication (mirroring) of two or more discs. It [...]

We published an article about RAID 5: “How does RAID 5 work? The Shortest and Easiest explanation ever” – now is the time for the whole series.  We will try to show you, in a few words, the shortest explanation for RAID standard levels – 0, 1, 1+0, 0+1, 2, 3, 4, 6 and Matrix.  Now is the time for RAID 0 – take a look… What is RAID 0 We can describe RAID 0 [...]