We have a 16 drive SAN (2 HS and 14 drives in a RAID 5) that recently lost 4 drives. We replaced all 16 drives with brand new 2 TB drives and built a new array. Now we realized that the data on the ...

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 ...

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 ...