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• Storage Spaces or Intel Rapid Storage?

  Posted on June 12, 2023 at 02:43 CDT by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

  HARDWARE DIY

  

  By Will Fastie

  My plan to use Storage Spaces on Opal hit a speed bump.

  In my recent article Windows Storage Spaces (2023-05-22), I described my experiment with Opal, in which I decided to replace the RAID array created by Intel Rapid Storage with the same type of array created by Storage Spaces. My reaction was generally positive, although I did complain about the UI.

  My opinion has changed. I’ll be reverting to Intel Rapid Storage.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (20.24.0, 2023-06-12).

  Hardware DIY, hard drives, Hardware, Intel RST, Newsletters, RAID, Storage Spaces

• Buy the drives you need before ‘chia’ gets them all

  Posted on May 10, 2021 at 01:06 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

  PUBLIC DEFENDER

  

  By Brian Livingston

  Prices of high-capacity solid-state drives (SSDs) have almost doubled at the producer level just in the past few weeks — and shortages are already affecting us. The cause is a new kind of cryptocurrency that demands vast amounts of disk space around the world for its financial network to function.

  The new digital coins, which began trading only a week ago, bear the odd moniker of “chia.”

  Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.17.0 (2021-05-10).

  AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Public Defender AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Cryptocurrency, hard drives, Public Defender, SSDs

• From the Lounge: Simple and cheap data backup and storage

  Posted on April 6, 2020 at 01:05 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BACKUP

  By Paul Tannard

  It’s axiomatic that the only good data-backup system is one you actually use — often and consistently.

  There are many options for safely storing your files, but they vary considerably in cost and complexity. I prefer simplicity whenever possible.

  Data storage really falls into three categories: active files you need to be able to access quickly; system backups, used to recover from catastrophic failures and small data losses; and archived files that you need to keep but might not look at ever again.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.13.0 (2020-04-06).

  Backup AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Backup utilities, File hashing, hard drives, System backup

• LangaList: Should you trust a hard drive after a major error?

  Posted on February 18, 2019 at 05:32 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Tough question. No easy answers. But there are lots of ways you can diagnose a suddenly disruptive drive.

  Fred Langa with money-saving advice to fix (or accept!) a problem we’ve all encountered.

  Out this  morning in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.6.0. Now available – yes, for free — on AskWoody.

  Other Fred Langa, hard drives, LangaList