Everyone uses RAID, right? I don’t—at least, not in the sense that you’re thinking of. While a striped array is the most common version of RAID, I actually use a non-striped parity system in my ...

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 ...

I ditched RAID 6 for RAID 5, and I'm not looking back ...

What if you could build your own high-performance, scalable data storage solution for a fraction of the cost of commercial options? Imagine a sleek, compact system with swappable drives, RAID 5 ...

I'm slowly assembling the components for a new home server. My plan for the system so far is as follows: The plan is to use the two system drives in RAID 0 for redundancy, and then build a RAID 5 ...

The ARAID low-cost RAID disk controller subsystem has dual drives that mirrors all computer files for disaster recovery and backup. To replace a failed hard-disk drive, the user pulls out the drive ...