If you were to gauge RAID 5’s utility just by looking at a RAID calculator, it would seem like an efficient option for most ...

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 ...

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RAID 5 explained: RAID 5 sees the distribution of parity information between all drives in the RAID set and is resilient against the failure of a single disk. So, how does RAID 5 share data in a 10 MB ...

What is the maximum number of physical drives in a RAID 5 configuration? For example, will data recovery in case of drive failure(s) be practical if I have seven 146 GB drives? RAID 5 recovery: A RAID ...

If you've ever looked into purchasing a NAS device or server, particularly for a small business, you've no doubt come across the term "RAID." RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or ...

on non-standard RAID levels, I talked a bit about RAID 1E, which is a RAID level that provides RAID-10-like functionality but with an odd number of disks. Although disks are pretty cheap these days, ...

RAID 50 offers a balance of performance, storage capacity, and data integrity Your email has been sent RAID 50 is an often overlooked RAID level that can bridge the gap when it comes to choosing ...

LaCie's latest 5big Thunderbolt storage device promises lots of storage space and superfast speeds, but it doesn't support RAID 5. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo ...

In my previous two articles in this space, I've explained the differences between the "single digit" RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Individual Disks) levels and ...