While mostly known for award-winning graphics and video cards, NVIDIA also produces controller and bridge chipsets for motherboards. Some NVIDIA chipset motherboards ship with integrated Redundant ...

The 16-port EX16350 and EX16300 PCI-X and PCI-Express RAID disk drive controllers provide advanced RAID6 fault tolerance using hardware acceleration. The 3-Gbit/s boards use an Intel IOP333/IOP331 I/O ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.—If you've ever suffered disk failure, you'll be interested in a new product from Applied Micro Circuits Corp. AMCC is rolling out a battery-backed AMCC StorSave Platform for its line ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...

HighPoint has been around for many years and if you have been tinkering around with PCs for more than a few years you are already familiar with the company. HighPoint was one of the very first RAID ...

We've used the LSI 9260-8i for the past year to test multiple drive RAID arrays. The choice was pretty clear after testing the 9260-8i against several other hardware RAID controllers since it offered ...

RAID5 is easily the most popular RAID level used today because it’s a great all-rounder. While there is no one area where RAID5 is the best, it does do everything pretty well and it maintains a decent ...

As the use of flash memory for solid-state disk progresses, vendors who make SSD controllers are also worth watching. Fusion-io is one who just announced a major advance. John Webster Special to CNET ...

Is it possible to set some disks to RAID mode while keeping the rest in AHCI mode? I am using a MSI P55-CD53 motherboard, using only the first 6 SATA ports (I have the additional JMicron controller ...

Just built a new machine, 98% of the data is backed up already so it's not a huge loss if I have to start fresh, and I can back up what is new on the machine before trying anything. What I did: I ...