Western Digital’s My Book Studio Edition II is an external hard drive that uses two drives, pre-configured as a fast RAID 0 (striped) array. Our test unit came with two 500GB WD Green Power drives ...

Leaving aside the drive controller overhead, network speeds (in case of a NAS), and other factors, RAID 0 provides better ...

For example, if you created a mirrored RAID with a 300GB drive and a 500GB drive, 200GB of the 500GB drive would be wasted, because the drive would mirror only 300GB. Similarly, you lose any potential ...

I've been running an Abit A7V with a built in Highpoint 374 RAID controller for a while. I used a RAID 0+1 array thinking that I would be able to survive a dead drive due to the mirroring. Long story ...

Many of us are now shooting video in 4K/UHD resolution as opposed to HD. Whether we edit and deliver in 4K or not is a decision based on our commissioning requirements but either way, additional hard ...

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 seems like only yesterday when we were laughing at 32 bit storage and "gigabytes", "who would ever use that much space?" we asked ourselves? Now we have new forms of digital media such as Blu-ray ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...