LaCie announced yesterday updates to its ill-named but award-winning 2big Network and 5big Network in the form of improved performance, features, backup support, and expansion. As in 10 terabytes. The ...

As we’ve been talking about Server Message Block support, this week is a good time to discuss storage appliances that offer this service. The advantage that these devices provide is the ability to add ...

In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...

I have had enough harddisk failures at home so that I'd like to have a solution that would make that problem go away. I'd like to have some simple separate computer or system that acts as a file ...

PCWorld explains how setting up a Network Attached Storage (NAS) device provides a private alternative to cloud services like Google Photos and iCloud for photo backup. Entry-level 2-bay NAS ...