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data storage, hot spare, server
Hardware, RAID

Why a HOT SPARE Hard Disk Is a Bad Idea

Updated on 03/08/2021 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?
RAID

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
RAID

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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disk-to-disk-to-tape backup strategy
Backup

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?
Hardware, RAID

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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Open-E Overview
iSCSI, Open-E Legacy Products

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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What are RAID and how it works?
Hardware, RAID

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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