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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

As summer looms and people's minds turn to well-earned vacations, we're re-running some of our most popular past articles in case you didn't see them the first time. In this exhaustive piece, Phil ...

Apple's Mac Pro computers have the capacity of holding up to four internal hard drives, and all Mac models support the use of external drives through either USB or FireWire. This allows for multiple ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. OWC has announced a new model of its ThunderBlade storage ...

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 ...