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RAID, redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a system that employs two or more disk drives in combination, through hardware or software, for performance and fault tolerance. RAID ...

I'm going to play with installing Linux on an old Compaq server. It has 5 9.1GB scsi drives on a RAID controller. What is best, one big RAID 5 array or a RAID 5 and a RAID 1. If the RAID 5/1 is best, ...

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The combination of Linux software RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) and LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager, version 2) offered in modern Linux operating systems offers both robustness and ...

Ah, storage. Every PC needs it it, but your standard PC storage solutions suffer from two glaring frustrations. First off, storage performance tends to be one of the main bottlenecks in a typical PC, ...