It's not hardware RAID. The RAID is handled by the BIOS (firmware, still running on your CPU) until Windows starts to boot, at which point Intel's driver (Matrix Storage Manager, i.e. software) takes ...

The odds of losing all your data are low, but never zero.

I have two new drives for data backup which I would like to put in a RAID 1 configuration. I dont have a RAID controller, so until I upgrade my mobo in about 6 months time, I wanted to try out the Win ...

San Diego, Calif. &#151 Applied Micro Circuits Corp. has beefed-up its PowerPC processor line with two new versions that offer both RAID 5 and RAID 6 functionality. Both the PowerPC 440SP and 440SPe ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...

It wasn't that long ago that we were all using regular old spinny disks for storage. Time was, you really wanted to use dedicated hardware for RAID arrays to get the best performance. Plugging them ...

The Fusion Dual 2.5-inch SSD RAID card enables users to install two 2.5-inch SATA SSDs (sold separately) into a full-length PCIe card slot. The attached SSDs are managed by the card's onboard RAID ...

I’ve just had an ‘interesting’ couple of days. My high-elevation home office got clobbered by another memorable winter storm over the weekend, and although the local power grid is normally quite ...

At the 2025 COMPUTEX Product Showcase, JMicron Technology Corp., a global leader in high-speed interface bridge controllers, alongside its wholly-owned subsidiary KaiKuTeK Inc., introduced a new line ...