We have a 16 drive SAN (2 HS and 14 drives in a RAID 5) that recently lost 4 drives. We replaced all 16 drives with brand new 2 TB drives and built a new array. Now we realized that the data on the ...
Pick the wrong RAID level, and you might end up losing all your data ...
Due to a power surge, a client of mine has two drives fried out of their RAID 5 array (about seven disks total). There were no hot spares (and the Tape drive is in the mail!). The controller still ...
When it comes to building a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), there's always the potential to choose the wrong RAID type. This shouldn't cause any issues with storing data, but it could ...
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 ...