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RAID 5: How does it work?
A few years ago we published an article ‘How does RAID 5 work? The shortest and easiest explanation ever’. We have to admit that this article enjoyed great popularity among ...
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D2D2T: a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategy
A look at the modern data storage industry can make your head spin. From a variety of hard drives, efficient disk arrays, magnetic tapes, conventional or emulated tape libraries to ...
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RAID 5? RAID 6? Or other altErnativEE?
Here we are with the next part of our RAID series. This time the article will concern RAID 5, RAID 6 and two alternatives – RAID 5E and 5EE. Take ...
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Multipath – which path should we choose?
Fortunately in Linux in contrast to our lives we don’t need to choose one path, we are able to choose all paths! In this article, you can find simple description ...
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How does RAID 5 work? The Shortest and Easiest explanation ever!
We all have limited time to study long and complicated information about RAID theories, but you may be interested as to how RAID 5 works. We made it simple for ...
Read More Formatted capacity confusion clarified
From time to time some meticulous customer will ask us how come a fresh formatted hard disk or RAID array volume is smaller than the nominal capacity. For example when ...
Read More Why a HOT-SPARE Hard Disk is a bad idea
People are a bit surprised every time they hear this question from us. Conventional wisdom about Hot-Spares teaches us that it is a very nice idea: minimizing degraded array state, ...
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