What is RAID, why do you need it, and what are all those mode numbers that are constantly bandied about? RAID stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” or “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...

Ever since its invention in the late 1980s, Raid (redundant array of inexpensive disks) has been a mainstay of data protection on shared storage arrays and in enterprise servers. But, as the capacity ...

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RAID doesn't have a brain of its own and cannot understand intent. So if malware on a compromised system is writing to the ...

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

I'm looking at the differences between SHR and RAID5, and trying to figure out what the "catch" is if I went with SHR. As far as I can tell, it's basically "You can't move SHR drives to a non-Synology ...

Hey guys, I've been doing the research and I'm confused at which is better for my needs: I'm in the film business and I download the footage from the camera's, and that generates A LOT of data per ...

In the first post on this subject I discussed btrfs basics, showing how to create simple btrfs filesystems. In the second post, more on btrfs, I showed how btrfs filesystems can be dynamically resized ...

RAID allows two or more disk drives to be seen by the operating system as one physical drive. This allows for fault tolerance on your computer so that if one drive fails, the data is securely still ...