I finally got myself a pair of NVMe to fill the two slots on my motherboard, with the eventual goal to remove any remaining spinning rust*. Just because I can, the plan is to have my new main install ...

Well, while I'm waiting on my data to copy over to the new RAID array, I thought I'd come in and share with you my experience with Software RAID, the Linux way.<BR><BR>First, some background. My home ...

In the late 1980s, processing power and memory performance were increasing by more than 40% each year. However, due to mechanical limitations, hard drive performance was not able to keep up. To ...

Creating a software RAID in Linux is faster than Windows because it only requires a couple of console commands. In our example, we booted from a live Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ...

As a topic, backups is one of those subject likely to elicit as many answers as people you ask about it. It is as personal a choice as your desktop configuration or your operating system. So in this ...

The great thing about creating RAID volumes in Linux is that it’s so easy. RAID is really important for servers, and like most server software on Linux, it gets a lot of development attention. In our ...

BOSTON - At the Linux Foundation's new Vault show, it's all about file systems and storage. You might think that there's nothing new to say about either topic, but you'd be wrong. To deal with this, ...