This was among the driving forces behind the development of the Serial ATA standard, which showed potential to address these issues. Now in its second revision, SATA is delivering what system builders ...

That’s why you’ll often hear home lab enthusiasts and data-hoarders (including yours truly) mention the importance of extra ...

Another major advantage of an HBA is how naturally it scales. Consumer motherboards usually top out at six to eight SATA ...

It's hard to understate the impact of NAND flash and SSDs. Over the last decade, these storage solutions have transformed the entire market. But long before we had massive solid-state storage, we had ...

Editors' note: This post is part of an ongoing series. For the other parts, check out the related stories. Now that you have some ideas about internal storage vs. memory after reading Part 1, here in ...

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This information is also available as a PDF download. Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an ...

I'm slowly assembling the components for a new home server. My plan for the system so far is as follows: The plan is to use the two system drives in RAID 0 for redundancy, and then build a RAID 5 ...

A network server that is dedicated to storage. A network attached storage (NAS) device is a true storage server because it is dedicated to data access and nothing else. However, a file server, ...