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.—Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) is debuting its next generation of hardware RAID (redundant array of inexpensive disks) controllers. These have support for the latest SATA 2.5 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You are not going to be able to move them AND keep the array intact. You will need to copy the data off, delete the software array, move the drives to the new controller and make a new array with it's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...