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

When it comes to building a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), there's always the potential to choose the wrong RAID type. This shouldn't cause any issues with storing data, but it could ...

Surely somebody thinks there's a use-case for it, or the developers wouldn't recommend using a different FS, nor would they be building in this RAID 5/6 support in the first place. To be clear, we're ...

RAID 5 is perhaps the most popular form of RAID on the market (more so for businesses than end users). It utilizes a striped system with the dedicated parity drive replaced by a distributed parity ...

I've been busy building a few Linux boxes and was able to find answers to any of my questions either in books, HOWTOs or this forum [thanks all!] But here is one that I wasn't able to figure ...

Compellent today announced its latest SAN, which offers SAS drive capability, automated tiering between RAID 5, 6 and 10 levels and server mapping that automates deployment of virtual servers and ...