Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...

Whether you’re a newcomer to the home lab ecosystem or a data hoarder with many years under the belt, you’ve probably heard about RAID levels. After all, RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent (or ...

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 ...

What if you could build your own high-performance, scalable data storage solution for a fraction of the cost of commercial options? Imagine a sleek, compact system with swappable drives, RAID 5 ...

I love this 16x, four-port, full-speed M.2/NVMe PCIe 5.0 card — for auxiliary storage. Its individual x4 slots are faster than most motherboard NVMe M.2 and it’s three to four times as fast in RAID 0 ...

With QNAP's Standard raid you were limited to doing two Mirrors because of the drive size mismatch. But if you had the money would you of gone Raid-5 with 4 8's for 24TB of space or stuck yourself in ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Have you ever wondered how multiple storage drives in your computer can work as if they were one? Even more baffling is how a computer can ...