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Asynchronous vibrations: The physical reason mixing 5400 and 7200 RPM drives ruins your NAS

Here's why you shouldn't mix different speed HDDs on your NAS ...

Glyph Atom EX20 SSD review: Fast 20Gbps USB (if you BYO cable)

Glyph's rugged, handsome Atom EX20 external 3.2x2 USB SSD proved very fast -- but only after I switched to a higher-quality cable.
IEEE

RALD: Reliable Transactional Software Controller for Redundancy Array of Log Structured Disks

Abstract: An inconsistent update in a parity-based RAID can cause data loss when a disk failure occurs. There are two ways to restore the consistency: 1, Re-calculating parities, which does not work ...
Morningstar

IBM Introduces Autonomous Storage with New FlashSystem Portfolio Powered by Agentic AI

Three new systems – the IBM FlashSystem 5600, 7600, and 9600 – which deliver up to 40% greater data efficiency for improved capacity footprint and performance, compared to the previous generation.2 ...
IEEE

RAIDx: A New Distributed Disk Array for I/OCentric Cluster Computing

A new RAID-x (redundant array of inexpensive disks at level x) architecture is presented for distributed I/O processing on a serverless cluster of computers. The RAID-x architecture is based on a new ...