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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CalDigit's T4 is a great solution for those wanting high performance storage with data redundancy. With the initial cost being quite high, this may steer some away, but this unit does have a class ...

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