Due to the unique characteristics of flash, performance validation testing is immensely challenging and critically important; follow these best practices All-flash storage arrays (AFAs) are receiving ...

IBM today announced its latest all-flash array, the V840 virtualized storage system with 1.6 Petabyte compressed storage capacity (320 TB total usable un-compressed flash capacity) in a single 6U ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

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Solution providers and their clients looking for ways to improve the performance of their storage infrastructures are increasingly turning to flash storage. The market for flash storage is booming, ...

Hitachi Data Systems on Tuesday unveiled its first all-flash storage array family as part of the storage vendor's new "flash first" strategy for developing solutions. While HDS has sold all-flash ...

New high-end arrays include full disk encryption and solid-state disks, and offer up to 2.5 times the performance and 50 percent more energy efficiency For the first time in three years, IBM has ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...

I'm putting together a storage array. I've got 3x250GB SATA disks, and can get my hands on a 4th one. I need to put in adapter card(s) to connect the drives since the mobo in question does not have ...

Am I missing something here... ? It was my understanding that with a RAID setup, it was possible to increase performance (not taking into account reliability) above that of a single disk. Let's say I ...