Why a HOT SPARE Hard Disk Is a Bad Idea
Updated on 19/08/2025 Due, in part, to the different views and opinions regarding the usage of hot spare disks...
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RAID 5: How does it work?
Updated 23/09/2021 A few years ago, we published an article ‘How does RAID 5 work? The shortest and easiest...
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Binary Powers or Formatted Capacity Confusion
Last update: July 05, 2021 From time to time, some meticulous customer asks us how come a fresh formatted...
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D2D2T: a disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategy
A look at the modern data storage industry can make your head spin. From a variety of hard drives,...
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RAID 5? RAID 6? Or Another AltErnativEE?
Updated 19/11/2021 Here we are again with the next part of our RAID series. This time we’ll be taking...
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Multipath – which path should we choose?
Fortunately in Linux in contrast to our lives we don’t need to choose one path, we are able to...
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How does RAID 5 work? The Shortest and Easiest explanation ever!
We all have limited time to study long and complicated information about RAID theories, but you may be interested...
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