The great thing about creating RAID volumes in Linux is that it’s so easy. RAID is really important for servers, and like most server software on Linux, it gets a lot of development attention. In our ...

Memory WD's new HDD tech promises 'flash-like' performance and just maybe a way out of the dreaded memory supply crisis Memory My testing shows that 16 GB of system memory is still absolutely fine for ...

RAID, redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a system that employs two or more disk drives in combination, through hardware or software, for performance and fault tolerance. RAID ...

I'm going to play with installing Linux on an old Compaq server. It has 5 9.1GB scsi drives on a RAID controller. What is best, one big RAID 5 array or a RAID 5 and a RAID 1. If the RAID 5/1 is best, ...

Software RAID failure does not have redudancy of hardware RAID. You will have to replace hardware, reinstall OS, restore from backup. Get a hardware RAID controller ...

The combination of Linux software RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) and LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager, version 2) offered in modern Linux operating systems offers both robustness and ...