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Don’t trust RAID 5 with your 20TB drives; use RAIDZ-2 instead
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Please stop trusting RAID 5 for your home NAS
The odds of losing all your data are low, but never zero.
I have a Windows Storage Server 2003 running on 3x 500GB SATA HDD in a RAID 5 array on a PERC 5/i card. The problem is we need more storage space, and therefore I was planning on buying 4x 1TB drives.
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 ...
CalDigit's T4 is a great solution for those wanting high performance storage with data redundancy. With the initial cost being quite high, this may steer some away, but this unit does have a class ...
As summer looms and people's minds turn to well-earned vacations, we're re-running some of our most popular past articles in case you didn't see them the first time. In this exhaustive piece, Phil ...
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 ...
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