Topic: ATA raid

21 September 2004

A virtual Raid, more lawsuits and massive laptop disk drives

By Chris Mellor, Techworld

Wireless NAS, IBM grid, David and Goliath, ILM for data warehousing and more... Read more...

23 April 2007

Overland: Another question mark over its future

By Chris Mellor, Techworld

Overland's third quarter looks set to replicate the year-ago Q3; revenue $10 million down and a repeated loss. What can the firm do? Read more...

02 January 2007

USB becoming universal slow bus

By Chris Mellor

USB is in danger of becoming a non-Universal SB as faster external SATA interfaces look set to rise in popularity this year. Read more...

03 March 2005

FATA's fortune

By Chris Mellor

H-P announced its FATA hybrid Fibre Channel/ATA disk drives last year. It's on its own here and, with Ms Fiorina hors de combat we took a quick look at the status of the FATA drives. Read more...

25 September 2007

InfoTrend EonStor A12S-G2130

By David Cartwright, Techworld

• List price: A12S-G2130 with 12 500GB disks: around £3,800 Other models and disk combinations on request.
• Pros: Deals well with drive and power failures. Sensible architecture of logical disks/volumes, partitions and LUN mapping. Depending on the disks you have and how you arrange them, supports RAID 0, 1, 3/30, 5/50, 6/60 and 10.
• Cons: Java RAIDWatch application was flaky on one of our test machines. Serial- and browser-based configuration mechanisms are both a bit clunky. Read more...

22 December 2005

Servers in the smaller business

By David Cartwright, Techworld

One it's time to upgrade a database server with added redundancy - and money's tight - it's time to adopt an innovative approach. Our guide to keep a business running while spending less. Read more...