Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...

I'm slowly assembling the components for a new home server. My plan for the system so far is as follows: The plan is to use the two system drives in RAID 0 for redundancy, and then build a RAID 5 ...

Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyone's attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. It's ...

What were your mdadm parameters? You spent some time tweaking ZFS, but no time tweaking mdadm? mdadm out of the box does not have very convincing performance, as we ...

Here's our essential guide to all the different types of RAID setup. It's almost as if camera manufacturers are somehow dedicated to keeping hard disk manufacturers in business. By the early 2000s, it ...