If you’re new to the NAS and server ecosystems, the chassis can be an expensive investment, let alone multiple HDDs for RAID arrays. But for folks with budget setups involving 2-bay NAS enclosures, ...

I'm trying to decide how best to use a pair of 4TB external USB3 disks in my file server. At this point I've pulled one of the disks from it's enclosure and installed it in the file server. Now I'm ...

Unfortunately, the endless recesses of the Internet are filled with a bunch of misconceptions about RAID setups, and it’s ...

What is FreeNAS you say? Put simply, it's is an operating system based on FreeBSD that brings with it a snazzy web interface for management, and all the protocols you need to share files between ...

My freshly-upgraded ubuntu 8.04 machine has three hard drives in it: a 250 GB drive for the system itself and two 750 GB drives. My plan is to make the two big drives into a RAID1 array for shared ...

Sure, you can now get a terabyte of networked attached storage for under $1,000. But will that price buy you RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, and 5? Or an 8-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet LAN switch? Or built-in ...

RAID 5 explained: RAID 5 sees the distribution of parity information between all drives in the RAID set and is resilient against the failure of a single disk. So, how does RAID 5 share data in a 10 MB ...