We have a 16 drive SAN (2 HS and 14 drives in a RAID 5) that recently lost 4 drives. We replaced all 16 drives with brand new 2 TB drives and built a new array. Now we realized that the data on the ...

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 ...

Get another board with RAID by the same company that made the RAID on your old one, or an add in PCI card from the same people. I've transferred a few RAID volumes around different Promise ...

There are many levels of IT hell. Surely, one of the worst of those involves coping with the looming torture of RAID 5. RAID has been with us for more than 20 years, and during that time has saved the ...