RAID is one of the most common terms thrown around in the home lab ecosystem, though there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Despite offering some protection ...

In my previous two articles in this space, I’ve explained thedifferences between the "singledigit" RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Individual Disks) levelsand ...

When choosing a RAID level for a new array, there are a number of important points that you need to take into consideration. Scott Lowe outlines these points. In four recent TechRepublic blogs, we ...

RAID is a common method for protecting application data on HDDs and solid-state storage, with different types of RAID balancing the level of protection and performance against the cost. The greater ...

This tip from Greg Schulz outlines the 8 common RAID levels in use today and details the characteristics and applications of each. Characteristics: Disk spreads data across two or more disk drives to ...

This information is also available as a PDF download. Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an ...

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 ...