Servers

More and more businesses are moving away from traditional RAID arrays or dedicated SANs in favour of Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), the software-defined storage technology built into Windows Server since the 2016 release. The appeal is clear: pool the local...

A Synology or QNAP NAS reporting a failed drive isn't a data loss event yet. What usually decides the outcome isn't the failure itself, but what happens in the hours that follow. A reset that wipes the RAID metadata, a...

A drive fails in your RAID 5 or RAID 6 array. The controller drops into degraded mode and offers to start the rebuild, recalculating the missing data from parity. That moment, before you even confirm the rebuild, is where the fate of...

A fire breaks out in a server room. A pipe bursts above a rack. A sprinkler system triggers over the wrong cabinet. These are scenarios every business dreads, yet few are actually prepared for on the data side. When a...

A power outage rarely lasts more than a few seconds. That is still enough to render a RAID volume unreadable or corrupt an entire file system on a server or NAS. Contrary to popular belief, the risk does not come...

Your NAS is beeping and a status LED has switched to orange or red. In the vast majority of cases, that sound means a drive in your RAID volume has just failed and the system is now running in degraded...

 RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems are essential for ensuring data backup and data recovery. Designed to improve both the security and performance of servers, RAID architectures play a leading...

RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) systems offer a robust solution for increasing storage speed and capacity, while providing a certain degree of redundancy. By merging multiple hard drives into a single entity, they aim to strengthen resilience against failures...

RAID systems, with their complex architecture and robustness, play an indispensable role for organizations and individual users managing large volumes of data. Despite their solidity, they remain vulnerable to failures that can cause significant data loss. In these circumstances, the...

In the field of data storage, there are various server solutions tailored to different needs and contexts. Among these options, we find DAS (Direct Attached Storage), SAN (Storage Area Network) and NAS (Network Attached Storage). Let's look at the main...

In the ever-changing landscape of data storage solutions, choosing between a Storage Area Network (SAN) and a Network Attached Storage server (NAS - Network Attached Storage) can be a difficult decision for businesses and individuals alike. These two storage options...

Introduction to RAID configurations for enterprise data storage RAID systems (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) play a key role in safeguarding business data by offering different levels of redundancy. For example, RAID 0 provides no data redundancy, while RAID 1 and RAID...