Raid in Linux: Easier than it Looks

Post by Maxime Rousseau

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Disk redundancy is something that I've been wanting in my home server for quite a while now, and since I now make (relatively) huge paychecks for working somewhere else than McDonalds, I thought that with the traditional HDD's prices plumetting because of the increasinly competitive SSD segment taking over, it…

[OCN] Rethinking Hard Drives and Storage

Post by Maxime Rousseau

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In this post, I explore how hard drive makers have spent too much time and effort making drives only bigger and faster, and not thinking about making more products tailored to what the consumer needs, and how there are many segments that are still open to whoever wants to take…