I want to implement some form of redundancy on my home file server, as I have none currently. My current configuration is as follows:<BR><BR>Pirmary Master: 120 GB HDD<BR>Primary Slave: 80 GB ...

My freshly-upgraded ubuntu 8.04 machine has three hard drives in it: a 250 GB drive for the system itself and two 750 GB drives. My plan is to make the two big drives into a RAID1 array for shared ...

If you were to gauge RAID 5’s utility just by looking at a RAID calculator, it would seem like an efficient option for most ...

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 ...