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 ...

I'm looking at a client disaster. What occurred was that last week, we had a single drive 'failing' in a 4-drive RAID 5 array on the aforementioned server.<BR><BR>Normally, this isn't a big deal. I ...

Traditional RAID wastes your storage space: Why my 100TB NAS uses Unraid instead ...

Skyera's warning about the deficiencies of RAID-5 in SSD arrays has been validated by a new study from researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. That study ...

Taipei, Taiwan, March 19, 2018 - QNAP® Systems, Inc. today rolled out the TS-328, the first quad-core 3-bay NAS that allows for building a RAID 5 array using only three drives. Compared with 2-bay NAS ...

OK, I'm an idiot. -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_redface.gif --<br><br>One of my drives in my RAID 5 array (3 x ...

How does RAID 5 reduce data loss? RAID 5 takes your data and adds some parity data that makes it possible to reconstruct the original data if there is a drive failure (RAID 6 is similar, except it can ...