Whether you’re a newcomer to the home lab ecosystem or a data hoarder with many years under the belt, you’ve probably heard about RAID levels. After all, RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent (or ...

In simple layman’s terms, RAID is a technology that allows users to combine multiple physical disk drives into a single unit. This improves data storage performance and reliability, enhances data ...

RAID in its several forms provides the backbone for most of our high availability, high performance storage. RAID devices have been with us since the late-1980s, and by now are so much a part of our ...

I'm setting up my first RAID system here at work. It's a Maxtronic Arena II U3 enclosure they ordered awhile back before I started, and I'm setting it up as a backup file server. It's got an U160 SCSI ...

Our company just paid several thousand dollars to recover our RAID (level 5) after it failed to rebuild when a drive went down. In speaking with the recovery people they blame the failure on the ...

There are many levels of IT hell. Surely, one of the worst of those involves coping with the looming torture of RAID 5. RAID has been with us for more than 20 years, and during that time has saved the ...