As the use of flash memory for solid-state disk progresses, vendors who make SSD controllers are also worth watching. Fusion-io is one who just announced a major advance. John Webster Special to CNET ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.—The SST55LC100 CompactFlash NAND flash disk controller from Silicon Storage Technology Inc. (SST) enables designers to build mass-data storage systems with standard NAND flash memory ...

In addition to components such as platters that store data and magnetic heads that read and write data, HDDs are made up of various components such as hard disk controllers and cache chips. Among them ...

The 16-port EX16350 and EX16300 PCI-X and PCI-Express RAID disk drive controllers provide advanced RAID6 fault tolerance using hardware acceleration. The 3-Gbit/s boards use an Intel IOP333/IOP331 I/O ...

RAID5 is easily the most popular RAID level used today because it’s a great all-rounder. While there is no one area where RAID5 is the best, it does do everything pretty well and it maintains a decent ...

We have several identical ML370 G5 servers at one site (and some DL380s and AS/400 but those don't feature in this story.) I installed windows updates on all of these servers and rebooted. Pretty ...

In the first part of this series, I talked about how you could recover your server after a system volume failure. In this article, I want to turn my attention to some special procedures used for ...