I'm trying to track down how long it would take a Raid 50 array to rebuild. It would consist of two 7 disk Raid 5 sets with Raid 0 tacked on the end. 15k 6Gb/sec SAS drives. Each disk is 600 GB. Even ...

Today, we continue our discussion of RAID 5. When it comes to RAID 5, rebuild times are affected by four things. The first parameter is the number of drives in the array: the more drives you have, the ...

I'm curious if there's a consensus on when is the better time to rebuild a RAID array that suffers a failed drive during peak usage hours. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that an unscheduled outage ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

Pick the wrong RAID level, and you might end up losing all your data ...