The world has changed since 2014, when allegedly the North Korean hacker group leaked the copies of then-unreleased Sony Pictures’ movie The Interview, and attempted to erase Sony’s IT infrastructure. ...
Read MoreAccording to the principle of entropy, everything that is ordered goes into disorder. The same happens to your data, once recorded and left with no guard, slowly decays – regardless ...
Read MoreUpdated 11/04/2022 I guess that all of us know that caching the data usually increases performance, but I wonder if all of us are aware of the risk that caching ...
Read MoreUpdated 23/09/2021 A few years ago, we published an article ‘How does RAID 5 work? The shortest and easiest explanation ever’. We have to admit that this article enjoyed great ...
Read MoreUpdated on 20/09/2021 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 short description ...
Read MoreUpdated 23/09/2021 This is the second article from our RAID series. We hope it shows what RAID is, its idea, and how it works in the easiest possible way. We ...
Read MoreIntel® Optane™ is a line of products based on a 3D XPoint technology that makes it significantly faster than typical NAND-based flash memories in terms of both access times and ...
Read MoreLast update: July 05, 2021 Today I would like to discuss the topic of RAID – more specifically backup issues. In the blog post title, I proposed a daring thesis ...
Read MoreLast update: July 05, 2021 From time to time, some meticulous customer asks us how come a fresh formatted hard disk or RAID array volume is smaller than the nominal ...
Read MoreLast update: July 02, 2021 Most present tape drives include a function called hardware compression. This makes data compression available to the magnetic tape by a drive. In many cases, ...
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