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 ...

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

How valuable is your data? If your storage drive crashed, would it ruin your day? Your week? Your entire career? Only you can answer those questions for yourself and your organization. But I'll tell ...

Okay what are the benefits/drawbacks of having, say, 2 250 GB hard drives aligned together in "RAID 0", vs. a single, standard 500 GB hard drive?<BR><BR>I get the impression that RAID is somehow ...

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 ...

OK, quick RAID question. Don't flame me for not searching because I did and it yielded far too many replies for me to have time to read through. Anyway, when using IDE RAID, what characteristics are ...

Brainout asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum to explain some of the words used to describe hard drives and storage. Technical terms can get overwhelming, especially when they include too ...