RAID selection can be a tough choice, especially when budgets are tight. Learn why RAID 10 might be a better choice than RAID 6 even though it’s more expensive. Last week, my friend and fellow ...

RAID 6 is the best form of RAID to run in a homelab, right? I don’t think so. RAID 6 might offer slightly more protection than RAID 5, but I prefer RAID 5 for my NAS systems—here’s why RAID 5 and 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 ...

I'm going to be setting up a Dell Perc 6/i later today and I'm wondering what RAID-6 stripe size that I should use. The system will primarily contain large files (BluRay rips [~5 GB each] and ISO ...

RAID arrays are designed to allow one or two individual drives to fail without losing access to the data. Parity data is added to your data to enable data access even after drive failure(s). The ...

RAID in its several forms provides the backbone for most of our high availability, high performance storage. RAID devices have been with us since the late-1980s, and by now are so much a part of our ...

What is RAID, why do you need it, and what are all those mode numbers that are constantly bandied about? RAID stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” or “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks ...