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• RAID 1.5 With IDE: Added Value Or Eyewash?*
  Friday 20 June 2003 – 07:00
  DFI claims that its LANParty motherboards offer RAID that is not only secure, but also fast. They're selling a relatively unknown RAID mode - RAID 1.5. We took a look at what it could do in practice.
• The RAID 6 Areca ARC-1120 One-ups RAID 5 Controllers*
  Monday 27 December 2004 – 06:00
  Areca doubles redundancy with RAID 6 and joins the hunt for customers in the growing SATA RAID market. We received their ARC-1120 PCI-X controller and pitted it against eight drives on 3Ware's 9500.
• RAID on Rye*
  Thursday 1 December 2005 – 06:00
  Who said only PCs could be modded and that server designs had to be boring? THG sits down with designer Dave Goeke who discusses his pride and joy: a Linux file server with RAID storage in a working toaster. Or is it really a toaster in which you can store your files?
• Unified Serial RAID Controllers for PCI Express*
  Friday 10 August 2007 – 02:45 in Hardware
  Professional and semi-professional RAID controllers have changed considerably since the serialization of SCSI commenced. The parallel SCSI standards shared their total bandwidth of up to 320 MB/s across all devices and required daisy-chaining devices us
• Vasstek's 'Quasi' RAID 6153S*
  Monday 6 November 2006 – 07:59
  Vasstek claims to offer real-time data protection with PCI controller-based mirroring storage known as RAID1m.
• RAID Recovery: The Data Knight Kroll Ontrack To The Rescue!*
  Wednesday 14 February 2007 – 02:38
  In the event of catastrophic hard drive failure, only professional data recovery can help. During a visit to Kroll Ontrack we gained insight into how data can even be restored from a crashed RAID array.
• Kill SCSI II: NetCell's RAID 0 Performance + RAID 5 Security Equals SyncRAID*
  Friday 28 November 2003 – 06:00
  It sounded too good to be true: the performance of RAID 0 and the security of RAID 5 storage bundled into one device. The SyncRAID architecture, NetCell claimed, will survive hard drive crashes without any major loss of performance - at a lower cost than the competition. THG took the time to see whether or not NetCell's marketing claims were the stuff of fiction or not.
• Enterprise RAID for $49: Ciprico VST Pro*
  Wednesday 16 July 2008 – 11:00
  Remember RAIDCore? The flexible storage architecture is now available as a software package that transforms many motherboard SATA controllers into top-notch RAID solutions. And you can plug in a hardware controller to add ports later on.
• Two External RAID Storage Solutions Reviewed*
  Friday 2 May 2008 – 02:30 in Networking
  iSCSI and SAS storage are flexible and powerful — but expensive. We looked at two direct attached storage solution kits from Accusys and AMCC/3Ware.
• RAID Without Additional Hardware: Do It Yourself With Windows 2000*
  Thursday 6 September 2001 – 07:00
  Although IDE RAID controllers provide a cost-effective way of creating high-performance RAID storage systems, you can even do away with this piece of hardware by using Windows 2000 support for software RAID. We took a detailed look at this option and put several different configurations to the test.
• Build a Cheap and Fast RAID 5 NAS*
  Tuesday 1 August 2006 – 07:02
  Can a RAID 5 NAS that you make yourself outperform ready-made alternatives? Bill Meade finds out.
• Acard's Small-Office RAID Appliance*
  Monday 23 January 2006 – 03:30
  Acard's rackmount storage appliance uses SATA hard drives, but connects to the host system with an UltraSCSI interface. Is this the right mix for small businesses?
• External Storage With RAID: Proware DP-405CI*
  Tuesday 12 April 2005 – 07:00
  Simple external hard drives often don't live up to the requirements of secure data storage. Proware offers attractively priced external storage units that house a RAID array and are connected via USB/FireWire.
• RAID Scaling Charts, Part 2*
  Wednesday 8 August 2007 – 09:58 in Hardware
  For our RAID tests, we once again use Samsung HM321KJ SATA/300 drives. This time, we benchmarked RAID 5 and RAID 6 setups with three to eight hard drives. We’ve been talking about RAID a lot during the last few months. RAID technology, which stands for
• RAID Scaling Charts, Part 1*
  Monday 2 July 2007 – 04:06
  How do RAID arrays scale as you increase the number of hard drives they contain? Part 1 of our RAID Charts project shows all the benchmark results for RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 0+1 setups across two to eight disk drives.