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Category Archive For: Hardware
What are RAID 1, RAID 1+0 and RAID 0+1
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 ...
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What is RAID 0
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 ...
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A few words about DSS V6 volume replication (DRBD)
We are sure some of you have thought about DRBD – about its use and operation. Here is some information about it – a few benefits, some drawbacks, tips and ...
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Hardware failure, RAID rebuilds, and Data/Volume Replication
Hardware failure can be a show stopper for any shop without proper backups and hardware reserves. It can be very costly to send hard drives for data recovery. Even with ...
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Slow connections
While you are using WAN network you may face the problem of slow connections. It may cause various difficulties – i.e. during replication process. Open-E Data Storage Software – as ...
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Backup it, lose it, restore it and stay calm – 10 basic rules for the wary
Life is full of imperfections – we all know it. Sometimes bad things happen to people for no particular reason. As they say: “it happens”. All we can do is ...
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144TB of raw storage in 4U
Last week I visited WHD2011 (World Hosting Day) in Rust, Germany. As usual there was plenty of interesting news and lots of ideas on how computing is going to develop ...
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What you can expect from SSD?
Hard disk performance is limited by mechanical parts velocity and there is no solution for this issue. Servers are using RAID for redundancy and for performance. Thanks to RAID technology ...
Read More Shared storage for Linux servers – quickly and painlessly
How to provide access to shared data using Linux based servers and cluster file system? In this post we are going to present quick and painless way to configure the ...
Read More A few words about hardware compression in a backup with tape drives.
Most present tape drives include a function called hardware compression. This makes available data compression to the magnetic tape by a drive. In many cases this feature may prove very ...
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