RAID is one of the most common terms thrown around in the home lab ecosystem, though there’s a lot more to it than meets the ...

Unfortunately, the endless recesses of the Internet are filled with a bunch of misconceptions about RAID setups, and it’s ...

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 ...

Apple offers a couple of software RAID solutions for people interested in either creating a larger disk out of two, or mirroring two disks together for data redundancy in the event of a drive failure.

OK, I'm an idiot. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_redface.gif --<br><br>One of my drives in my RAID 5 array (3 x ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...

RAID, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, is a lot less relevant than it used to be. With super-fast SSDs and easy-to-use backup systems both easily available, the primary needs to chain multiple ...

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 ...