I'm trying to decide how best to use a pair of 4TB external USB3 disks in my file server. At this point I've pulled one of the disks from it's enclosure and installed it in the file server. Now I'm ...

This project implements a distributed file system with RAID 5 fault tolerance. The system provides data protection through distributed parity, allowing the file system to continue operating even when ...

Quick question on setting up RAID for a Windows file server.<BR><BR>When setting up a RAID-5 array, what are the optimal settings for read and write policy on the ...

I am looking for some advice from anyone who has had experience setting up a media file server (a place to store my videos etc) I currently have a stock standard PC, running software raid with two 3TB ...

In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...

RAID 5 explained: RAID 5 sees the distribution of parity information between all drives in the RAID set and is resilient against the failure of a single disk. So, how does RAID 5 share data in a 10 MB ...

This RAID Calculator (RAID Rechner) is a browser-based, single-file tool for calculating the usable capacity, redundancy overhead, and fault tolerance of RAID arrays. It supports all common RAID ...