Why is it so difficult to find out whether a particular SATA RAID controller card uses a native SATA controller chip, or has a IDE-SATA converter chip and then uses an old IDE133 RAID chip? Grrrr. -- ...

Are you still using your RAID card for RAID? It’s time to move to software-based RAID—but don’t throw that RAID card out yet, it still has a lot of use in your homelab. If we rewind time even by just ...

I was wondering the same thing, charlo. If you drill down in the adaptec site, there is a compatibility list of mobos... apparently it's a connector on the board. Apart from PCI. I was researching my ...

A RAID controller is a hardware device or software program used to manage hard disk drives or solid-state drives in a computer or storage array so they work as a logical unit. A RAID controller ...

For a time, my main PC rocked a pair of 480GB Intel SSD 730 series drives in RAID 0 and I thought that was the bee's knees. It seemed like storage nirvana back in the day. My, how times have changed ...

Use an Nvidia graphics card as a RAID controller – that’s the idea of SupremeRAID from US startup GRAID. For less than $4,000, it can control 32 NVMe SSDs and achieve read throughput of 110GBps and ...

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What does this mean? What's immersion cooling? Why does an SSD RAID AIC need that? Immersion cooling is a style of liquid cooling that submerges either most, or the entire PC in a non-conductive ...

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