Looking for a quick recommendation on RAID level config on an EMC ax4-5i SAN. We are getting 5x 1tb SATA 7200 drives. The way I see it the best two options would be a) RAID 10 w/ 1 Hot Spare or b) ...

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 ...

There are six main types of RAID array architectures: RAID-0 through RAID-5. When combining RAID 0 and RAID 1 (sometimes called RAID 10), we actually have seven variants of RAID arrays. Each provides ...

I do have a fair grasp of this issue, but I figured I'd ask here to brainstorm a bit. I have this server:<br><br>4-way P3-700 Xeon<br>5.5 GB RAM<br>6x 9 GB 10K U2W SCSI HDDs<br>Hardware RAID (0, 1, 10 ...

A redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks (RAID) is a collection of physical drives pooled together using virtualization technology to create one or more logical units for the purpose of ...

Whether you’re a newcomer to the home lab ecosystem or a data hoarder with many years under the belt, you’ve probably heard about RAID levels. After all, RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent (or ...

In recent time, RAID technology has been put into service in almost every application, such as desktops, servers, laptops, storage devices, and environments that require a large number of hard disk ...