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 ...

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, redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a system that employs two or more disk drives in combination, through hardware or software, for performance and fault tolerance. RAID ...

When choosing a RAID level for a new array, there are a number of important points that you need to take into consideration. Scott Lowe outlines these points. In four recent TechRepublic blogs, we ...

These RAID levels are combinations of RAID0 and RAID1. They provide all the sustained read and write performance of RAID0, most of the random read and write performance of RAID0 and offer the security ...

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Most RAID levels employ striping, it is a term used to describe when individual files are split and written to more than one disk. Striping is the way that RAID gets around the performance limitation ...

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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 ...