One of the common methods of storing data involves a RAID system. The term RAID is an acronym for redundant array of independent disks. It was first designed in 1987 and is now used to refer to any method of data storage that separates and duplicates information among a series of disk drives. RAID technology [...]
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It isn’t unreasonable to consider your server to be the lifeblood of your business or home network. Therefore, when it goes down and you lose data, it’s critical to get it back up and running quickly. Not only that, but you need to recover the jeopardized information as quickly as possible. Studies show that up [...]
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Computer hard drive failures can be really frustrating. If you have been in such a situation before then you would know how helpless it feels and how hard it is to choose the future course of action. If you have lost some vital data from the computer, that you want to retrieve, you don’t need [...]
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RAID is the term used for systems that use multiple hard disk drives to form what the host computer sees as a single storage volume. RAID was initially introduced when larger capacity drives were particularly expensive and used a controller with an array of multiple cheaper, smaller capacity drives to form a large volume. This [...]
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But did you know: If two disks fail then the raid has failed. It is the most complex controller design and is the most hard to rebuild in the event of a disk failure (as compared to RAID level 1) *Questions for the reader: How many drives have failed? are they logical, electrical or physical [...]
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The function set for the inaugural offering of RAID Diagnostic Toolkit is very basic. This post will explain how to choo...
Over the years one of the most consistent problems with RAID recovery is the rebuild. I would estimate that nearly 40 p...
In my last installment I covered two of the three reasons why we do a parity check. First we want to make sure tha...
A RAID system comprises of 2 or more hard disks that are combined to provide the storage capacity of both drives across ...
I find that “RAID” is such a scary term to a lot of my end users or business clients who are not Network Adm...
