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 ...

RAID 50 offers a balance of performance, storage capacity, and data integrity Your email has been sent RAID 50 is an often overlooked RAID level that can bridge the gap when it comes to choosing ...

Whether it’s a small enterprise or multinational corporation, data is a valuable asset for businesses of all types and sizes. To avoid catastrophic data loss, many businesses rely on RAID. If you also ...

I will soon be upgrading my NAS to a new Synology, and was wondering about RAID levels. I'm currently running a RAID5 with (4) 2TB disks in a DS410j, which was set up before the advent of SHR. My plan ...

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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 ...

In recent years, the physical security industry has seen more changes than just about any other time in modern memory. Digital or IP (Internet Protocol) cameras, based on CCD technology, have replaced ...

We've noticed a trend taking place in the network attached storage (NAS) market. With CPU performance on the rise, NAS manufacturers have taken enterprise features from larger servers and incorporated ...

Most RAID levels employ striping, it is a term used to describe when individual files are split and written to more than one disk. Striping is the way that RAID gets around the performance limitation ...