Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...

A quality 350W or 400W will be just fine, but software RAID 5 is probably a bad idea. #1 it's a CPU hit, #2 performance will be ass compared to a real controller, and #3 if the OS destroys itself, you ...

Can I add an old hard drive to RAID sets on servers? In answering this question, let’s assume that the old hard drive used to be an internal drive within a particular host or was incorporated within a ...

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 ...

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'm going to be swapping out the motherboard on my Ubuntu file server. I have a software RAID 5 set up on there using mdadm.<BR><BR>What do I need to do to get it back up and running once I do the ...