If you need to expand your Mac storage in a big way without breaking the bank, your best bet is with external hard drives.

In my experience, Windows Storage Spaces tends to be reliable and typically behaves in a predictable manner. On a couple of occasions, however, I have encountered problems related to detached virtual ...

Here at Miami, we have a lot of systems running to keep the campus afloat. With those systems comes data and files that need to be stored. As one can imagine, with a footprint as big as Miami's, that ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Network-attached storage (NAS) can make your business easier to run and more efficient in multiple ways. NAS boxes started out as simple ethernet-connected file servers for workgroup storage and ...

A couple of months ago, I encountered an interesting situation with regard to the disks in one of my servers. At the time, I had two identical Hyper-V servers, each of which were equipped with five ...

As more homes get multiple computers, more homes need some type of network storage. With network storage, you can share music files, videos, and photos among machines; send files back and forth; and ...

Backup is boring, let's admit it, but a shiny chunk of Network Attached Storage can lend a little of its new-toy glee to the procedure. My time with LaCie's Ethernet Disk mini might not exactly be the ...

Any s torage consolidation effort must involve a serious consideration of disk subsystems and the specific disk types that those systems will contain. As an example, there may be hundreds (even ...

In 1993, when Intel ushered in the modern computing age by releasing its Pentium chips, devices roared along at then-astounding speeds of around 60 MHz. Today's mainstream CPUs reach speeds of around ...

Seagate Corporate Communications lead Greg Belloni reached out to us today in the wake of our earlier coverage of SMR disks showing up unannounced and in unexpected places. Belloni confirmed that ...