Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

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I have a server with a 9500s 3ware SATA RAID card. The OS is running off of two RAID-1 Raptors. I also have an array with 3 500GB WD RE2's in a RAID-5 config. The machine is setup to boot from the ...

Boyfriend and I run a variety of things in-house - a web server, a file server, and several online multiplayer games that he's designed. We're building a new server (right now the non-game stuff runs ...

Solid state drives are increasingly common among consumers PCs, with many new devices shipping with SSDs. The drives are far more expensive than mechanical hard drives, but offer superior read and ...

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