In my last installment I covered two of the three reasons why we do a parity check. First we want to make sure that we do not have a stale hard drive in the array. Although I did not cover how one determines if in fact a stale hard drive exists, I will mention it now. [...]
We have been discussing the like affair I have with stale drives in a RAID five array and how best to determine if in fact one exists. I clarified how the NTFS file system data is normally laid out and the fact the ancient and new data, as well as how long the drive may [...]
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Over the course of a week I receive several calls regarding the recovery of a RAID 5 array. In the course of the initial interrogation of a client I question several questions regarding the state of the array, what has been done to recover the array and most importantly what happened to the array that [...]
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...
