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 ...

A forum post by New Zealand electronics enthusiast [zl2wrw] about retreiving waypoints from a mysterious floppy disk caught our eye. The navigation system on his friend’s fishing boat had died and was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

With recent advances in network bandwidth, resources and facilities are becoming centralized once again. The trend of departmental computers and services is fading as larger, more centralized services ...