HighPoint has been around for many years and if you have been tinkering around with PCs for more than a few years you are already familiar with the company. HighPoint was one of the very first RAID ...

The new Adaptec Series 6E RAID controller is currently targeting a storage and system builder market that currently relies on software-based RAID controllers, said Tom Flageollet, director of ...

Adaptec by PMC is hoping to ride a wave of resurgence into the enterprise RAID controller market with the recently launched Series 7. At the heart of this new series of RAID controllers is the radical ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...

We have (finally) retired this as our domain controller and fileserver. I want to re-purpose it as an offsite backup repository and as a NVR at my home, so I need some storage capacity, but I don't ...

Is this overkill? Yes. Do I want 8 x 8TB SSDs in my computer right now? God, yes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Have you ever ...

For a time, my main PC rocked a pair of 480GB Intel SSD 730 series drives in RAID 0 and I thought that was the bee's knees. It seemed like storage nirvana back in the day. My, how times have changed ...

Network semiconductor maker PMC-Sierra today announced its first 6Gbit/sec RAID controller for both serial ATA (SATA) and serial SCSI (SAS) systems. The Adaptec Series 6E controllers double the I/O ...

RAID—redundant array of inexpensive disks—is one way of either getting more capacity or more data security out of your storage system. If you’re willing to commit enough disks, you can get both speed ...

Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options. Direct attached storage (DAS) is one of the most basic types of storage you can ...