I'm looking at a client disaster. What occurred was that last week, we had a single drive 'failing' in a 4-drive RAID 5 array on the aforementioned server.<BR><BR>Normally, this isn't a big deal. I ...

Traditional RAID wastes your storage space: Why my 100TB NAS uses Unraid instead ...

Big storage companies stopped recommending RAID 5 a couple of years ago. But I still see small 4-drive arrays touting RAID 5 for home and small office use. Big mistake. You want to save money, but you ...

Hi, I'm having some trouble figuring out which ports to connect my hard drives to. Currently, I have my 160GB SATA Maxtor for the OS/applications on the SATA1 port of the ICH7R controller, and 2 WD ...

Skyera's warning about the deficiencies of RAID-5 in SSD arrays has been validated by a new study from researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. That study, Stochastic Analysis on RAID ...

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Storage is a big part of IP video security and so I thought I would start a small series of video storage starting with the basics. Today we will discuss RAID. RAID has been discussed many (x4) times ...

How does RAID 5 reduce data loss? RAID 5 takes your data and adds some parity data that makes it possible to reconstruct the original data if there is a drive failure (RAID 6 is similar, except it can ...

RedShark Replay: Phil Rhodes explains the background and the (then) latest developments in the ever-evolving world of RAID (first published in July 2013). I can't wait until my computer contains no ...

RAID 10 vs RAID 50: What is the best way to configure a storage array with 16 1 TB drives and why? It is proposed to set up two these boxes. RAID 10 vs RAID 50: The RAID level you use will increase or ...