Mehedi Hasan Shoab is a freelance writer specializing in Software as a Service, marketing and real estate. Follow him on Twitter @MhShoab. Data storage is critical to modern education, particularly in ...

Computers are kind of like people — as they age they tend to get a little slower and flaws are easier to see. Let's take a look at what is commonly known as "Bit Rot" and see if we can't understand ...

Several readers sent me a link to a piece by ExtremeTech's Loyd Case asking me what I thought of the problems he was having with his system: On the mornings I don't head into the ExtremeTech office in ...

I should add, I'm aware that there are (several) filesystems that do ECC/checksumming, but I'm really more interested in something that can store parity data in standard files. This seems to me to be ...