I'm trying to decide how best to use a pair of 4TB external USB3 disks in my file server. At this point I've pulled one of the disks from it's enclosure and installed it in the file server. Now I'm ...

I've begun working on a new project for my home. I'm putting together a MythTV Backend system/file server, and piecing together front-ends for each television in the house. All of the front-ends will ...

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 ...

In 2025, the choice of storage—HDD, SSD, or RAID—is critical to data security, performance, and uptime. SSDs provide quicker speed, cooler, quieter operation, and faster rebuilds in RAID ...