RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

The odds of losing all your data are low, but never zero.

So here's the problem, I have a machine with four hard drives. One of them has the system (Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS), the other three I want configured as a RAID-5 array via software RAID. ...with the ...

How valuable is your data? If your storage drive crashed, would it ruin your day? Your week? Your entire career? Only you can answer those questions for yourself and your organization. But I'll tell ...

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Many of us are now shooting video in 4K/UHD resolution as opposed to HD. Whether we edit and deliver in 4K or not is a decision based on our commissioning requirements but either way, additional hard ...

I've got a RAID-6 array with ten Seagate 2TB NAS drives here. One of the drives started throwing medium errors after a reboot last night, so I'm going to replace it. I can't find the Seagate 2TB NAS ...

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 ...

Striping and parity across three drives, oh my! Of all the RAID levels that consumers are likely to use on their home systems, RAID 5 is one of the more exotic choices. While RAID 0 and 1 are pretty ...