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 ...

Whether you’re a newcomer to the home lab ecosystem or a data hoarder with many years under the belt, you’ve probably heard about RAID levels. After all, RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent (or ...

Howdy, all.<BR><BR>I've posted here previously in Other Hardware on this subject. I'm looking to set up a TB+ RAID5 array with a 3ware 7506-8 controller and eight 250GB PATA IDE drives.<BR><BR>My ...

Background: I have a file server running Windows XP Pro. It has three 500GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration via a Syba SD-SATA-4PI card. I have just over 900GB of data on this array. I normally ...

It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options. Direct attached storage (DAS) is one of the most basic types of storage you can ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

on non-standard RAID levels, I talked a bit about RAID 1E, which is a RAID level that provides RAID-10-like functionality but with an odd number of disks. Although disks are pretty cheap these days, ...

Businesses sometimes store their data in a redundant array of inexpensive/independent disks arrangement, or RAID, but when one or more drives fail, or the ...