Hard drives fail, and they do it much more often than we'd like to think. Even if you've set up automated hard drive backups, you're not necessarily getting the best backup bang for your ...

How much longer will current RAID techniques persevere? The RAID levels were codified in the late 1980s; double-parity RAID, known as RAID-6, is the current standard for high-availability, ...

What is the maximum number of physical drives in a RAID 5 configuration? For example, will data recovery in case of drive failure(s) be practical if I have seven 146 GB drives? RAID 5 recovery: A RAID ...

Which RAID level should be used with three hard disks of 146 GB and one of 300 GB? All the main RAID levels are possible, but which RAID level you choose in this case depends on the criticality of the ...

Damage to the enterprise, caused by disk failure, has become a correspondingly heavier burden as disk capacity use has grown. Storage system downtime can mean companies fail to take full advantage of ...

The biggest concern when using a laptop computer is that "if the hard disk breaks, haste killed." If it is a desktop, you can install a plurality of hard disks and combine RAID, even if the first hard ...

Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is a technology that combines multiple physical storage devices (hard drives or SSDs) into a single logical volume to enhance performance, reliability, and ...