There seems to be as many RAID 5 configurations as there are technicians in the world. Each one seems to have its own brand of drive order, stripe size and parity. In addition, the Dell Corporation added a wrinkle to configuring multiple RAIDs within a set of drives. The name for this technology was ‘container’ […]
Practical RAID 5 Recovery and XOR Mathematics in NTFS 5 Part 2
The last installment of this particular blog offered the basics of RAID 5 recovery technology and used a very simple truth table to illustrate the four (4) states of XOR mathematics. This week we will dig a little deeper into the technology and hopefully offer a clearer understanding of how the normal end user can in […]
Practical RAID 5 Data Recovery and XOR Mathematics in NTFS 5 Part 1
The multitudes of RAID 5 setups are not isolated in the world of Enterprise Servers, home and small business users use them as well. This fact has brought an interesting quandary to the RAID 5 data recovery specialist. RAID 5, is without a doubt one of, if not the single most difficult recovery procedures in […]
