Tag: RAID

Life after RAID – – Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

By Randy Kerns, Thursday, January 5th 2012

Analyst Blogs

Recent developments point to a change in how we protect the loss of a data element on a failed disk. RAID is the venerable method used to guard against damage from a lost disk, but RAID has limitations – especially...

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MaxiScale and the emergence of software-defined storage, CNET Data-driven by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, October 7th 2009

Analyst Blogs

For the last two decades, RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) controllers have ruled the storage world. RAID has been required for data protection in disk arrays. RAID schemes (RAID 0,1,6 10, etc.) reside on RAID controllers baked into disk...

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