When it comes to building a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), there's always the potential to choose the wrong RAID type. This shouldn't cause any issues with storing data, but it could ...

Due to a power surge, a client of mine has two drives fried out of their RAID 5 array (about seven disks total). There were no hot spares (and the Tape drive is in the mail!). The controller still ...

My home server with a six drive RAID 5 array crashed due to a power problem. My friend rebuilt the array but could not see any data on it-- it looked unpartitioned to him. He then reinstalled Windows ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...