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Understanding RAID levels

Posted on Aug 6, 2013 by Robert Small

Why is RAID so difficult to understand? Probably because the algorithms are pretty complex and there are so many levels to RAID. Possibly because it sounds complicated, most likely because it’s too easy to get lost in the details and … Continue reading →

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Recovering a hardware RAID from failing disks

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Robert Small

Recovering hard drives from a failing RAID is never fun. By the very nature of RAID you don’t really have a chance to just pipe files off a disk so you’re in for some work. The fear with drive failure … Continue reading →

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