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• Creating half a mirror out of 3 drives totaling 300 GB

  Storage management expert Ashley D'Costa answers a reader's question: "Can I create a logical array from my disk bay, which has two disks totaling 300 GB by installing RAID 0?"  Continue Reading

• Growing a RAID group by adding old drives

  Storage management expert Ashley D'Costa answers a reader's question: "Can I add old RAID parts I've collected in my repair shop to my existing server?"  Continue Reading

• How to calculate available disk space on a RAID 5

  Storage management expert Ashley D'Costa answers a reader's question: "How do I calculate the disk space available on my RAID 5?"  Continue Reading

• Why does my EMC 45 TB drive yield only 41 TB of usable storage?

  Storage expert Ashley D'Costa answers a reader's question: "When is a 300 GB drive not a 300 GB drive?"  Continue Reading

• Use of RAID with multiple drives

  Storage expert Greg Schulz answers a reader's question: "Please give me an example of when RAID 1 with multiple drives is used."  Continue Reading

• Achieving secure data storage for shared read/write I/O operation

  Storage expert Greg Schulz answers a reader's question: "How can we achieve concurrent write access to our SAN without corruption?"  Continue Reading

• How to add more channels to a network

  Storage expert Greg Schulz answers a reader's question: "What is the best way to get more channels in my network?"  Continue Reading

• RAID 4 vs. RAID 5

  Storage management expert Ashley D'Costa discusses RAID 4 vs. RAID 5.  Continue Reading

• External SATA RAID array vs. system replacement

  Storage expert Ashley D'Costa answers a reader's question about the benefits of using an external SATA RAID array over replacing his entire system.  Continue Reading

• RAID-5 configuration

  Storage management expert Ashley D'Costa answers a reader's question about RAID-5.  Continue Reading

• What is unstructured data and how is it different from structured data in the enterprise?

  Expert Pierre Dorion talks about unstructured data and its impact on the data enterprise.  Continue Reading

• Offsite vs. onsite storage

  Storage expert Greg Schulz discusses offsite vs. onsite storage.  Continue Reading

• SAN server accommodation

  Storage expert Greg Schulz discusses a reader's question: "How many servers can a SAN accommodate?"  Continue Reading

• FCID on two separate fabrics

  Storage expert Greg Schulz answers a reader's question, "Is it possible to have the same FCID appear on two separate fabrics?"  Continue Reading

• SATA on a Dell Dimension 4400

  Storage expert Greg Schulz discusses using SATA on a Dell Dimension 4400.  Continue Reading