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

I am leaning toward an atom based solution since it will keep the costs down and use less power. DDR3 is necessary, if it uses SODIMM that is even better cause I have some extra laying around. On ...

QNAP have announced their latest network-attached storage device, the four-bay SS-439 Pro Turbo NAS. Capable of establishing various levels of RAID array for up to 2TB of total capacity, the SS-439 is ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...

I need to configure a server as RAID 5. The server has eight 146 GB drives. I want to make the C drive 20 GB, the G drive 75 GB and give the remaining space to the D drive. What’s the RAID 5 ...

Can I add an old hard drive to RAID sets on servers? In answering this question, let’s assume that the old hard drive used to be an internal drive within a particular host or was incorporated within a ...

A quality 350W or 400W will be just fine, but software RAID 5 is probably a bad idea. #1 it's a CPU hit, #2 performance will be ass compared to a real controller, and #3 if the OS destroys itself, you ...

There are many levels of IT hell. Surely, one of the worst of those involves coping with the looming torture of RAID 5. RAID has been with us for more than 20 years, and during that time has saved the ...