No matter how beautiful IOPS the manufacturers promise us, no matter what synthetic tests show, the real speed of a typical virtual machine depends on how your server is configured and how the application itself works. Let's explore the impact of different types of caching on Synology NAS. Toshiba, a major manufacturer of flash drives and hard drives, forecasts only 10% of corporate data will be stored on SSDs in the year, although it seems that all storage manufacturers have forgotten ...

Synology is taking another confident step into the world of enterprise storage. Today we're looking at RS3413xs +, a 10-drive NAS with SSD caching technology, up to 34 HDD scaling, upgradeable to 10G networks, 4 Gigabit NICs, plenty of memory and a powerful 4-core processor that promises 400,000 IOPS performance. (2000 MB/s) in read mode. Synology is strengthening its position in the Enterprise storage market. And if a year ago, RS series storage systems could be perceived as home NAS ...

Today's review is dedicated to an industrial storage system using advanced hardware capabilities. Suffice it to say that this is one of the few storage systems that supports 12 drives in a 2U chassis. Today, this means 24 TB of data in one device. All of this is powered by Core2 Duo E7400, and the platform itself is built on real server hardware. Today NetGear products are known to many ordinary consumers and corporate customers. The company specializes in networking equipment and has a ...

HP Lefthand storage ideology is based on 5 core technologies: Storage Clustering, Network RAID, iSCSI Networking, Thin Provisioning, Local & amp; Remote Copy. The names speak for themselves. In this article, we will find confirmation of each of these points, as well as consider how the different versions of the StorageWorks P4500 and StorageWorks P4300 series storage systems, designed for use in large enterprises, differ. Statistics are tough lady, difficult to argue with. And she says the ...

In the infrastructure of any modern enterprise, a special place should be given to data storage and backup systems. In case of failure, human error or for maintaining archives, but the data must be reliably protected from loss, prying eyes or natural disaster. In this article, we will explain what hardware is used to copy data in different cases. The active development of information technologies, which began at the very beginning of the 21st century and does not plan to stop in the coming ...

MSA2000sa disk arrays in a 2U case are designed to form a consolidated storage environment for small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as for organizing disk storage of the second or third level in remote offices and branches of large companies. It is important for administrators to know a number of subtleties of configuring these disk arrays. How the storage systems are configured in some cases depend on their fault tolerance and performance. For administrators of the popular HP ...

Usually, the user trusts his information to a single hard drive and backup. This approach is absolutely inappropriate for enterprises where data loss is equal to business loss. What data storage systems exist today and from what threats can they protect your data and, accordingly, your business? Considering any information system, one cannot but highlight such a process as information storage. It is the information that is the main value in any organization, and the entire infrastructure ...

Servers are the main strong point of Hewlett Packard products. The company owns more than one third of the x86 server market, so it's hard to compete in this regard. The company has expanded its server line this year, and the older models will soon be phased out. We will try to help you figure out the model range of HP servers that is relevant for the coming year. Not so long ago, HP outstripped IBM in server sales, slightly, but outstripped. This leap is driven by the company's very hard ...

We are testing and comparing two 1U universal rack servers. These servers use 2.5" hard drives, they meet the latest energy efficiency requirements and have the high performance Nehalem architecture. They are very similar, but nevertheless, choose between these two machines carefully, since each has its own characteristics, which we will tell you about. Modern 1U rack servers are mostly versatile machines for various configurations, ranging from web hosting to HPC and supercomputers. ...

Today, when choosing a server based on Intel processors, many are wondering whether it is worth overpaying for new items built on the Nehalem architecture, or taking a server of the previous generation, especially with a higher processor frequency. We tested two popular HP Proliant DL380 G5 and G6 server models and compared them not only in speed, but also in design. Almost a year has passed since Intel presented its new Nehalem architecture on the server market, but at the same time, the ...