There are as many RAID types as there are technicians who set them up. RAID 1, RAID 10, RAID 5, RAID 50, RAID 6, each one of those with different parity schemes, stripe sizes, along with drive aggregate. All of these configurations will normally have some thought behind them as to their use in a […]

RAID Configuration: 4 Seagate Barracuda Green 2 TB SATA hard drives (model ST2000DL003) configured as a RAID 5 connected to an on-board Intel RAID controller. Problem with RAID: Because of the nature of Green drives, specifically that they will spin down in low use periods, the array will periodically have a disk report as offline. […]