Striping and parity across three drives, oh my! Of all the RAID levels that consumers are likely to use on their home systems, RAID 5 is one of the more exotic choices. While RAID 0 and 1 are pretty ...

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Apple offers a couple of software RAID solutions for people interested in either creating a larger disk out of two, or mirroring two disks together for data redundancy in the event of a drive failure.

Taipei, Taiwan, March 19, 2018 - QNAP® Systems, Inc. today rolled out the TS-328, the first quad-core 3-bay NAS that allows for building a RAID 5 array using only three drives. Compared with 2-bay NAS ...

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.

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So here's the problem, I have a machine with four hard drives. One of them has the system (Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS), the other three I want configured as a RAID-5 array via software RAID. ...with the ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

RedShark Replay: Phil Rhodes explains the background and the (then) latest developments in the ever-evolving world of RAID (first published in July 2013). I can't wait until my computer contains no ...

on non-standard RAID levels, I talked a bit about RAID 1E, which is a RAID level that provides RAID-10-like functionality but with an odd number of disks. Although disks are pretty cheap these days, ...