With hard disk drive (HDD) capacities edging upwards – 6TB HDDs are now available – Raid is becoming increasingly problematic as a method of data protection against hardware failure. As a response, ...
Much has been written about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from data centers. Current estimates place data centers at consuming nearly 3% of the world’s total electricity – on par with ...
Since the late 1980s, RAID has been a fundamental method of data protection. But RAID arose in a world of SAN and NAS in hardware array products. Now the cloud and technologies such as object storage ...