Linux software RAID is pretty stable, moving a RAID set between hosts shouldn't be a big deal as long as you can keep the drives in the proper order, with Windows it's probably a pain because of the ...

Got a problem that is stumping *nix newbie (me). Ubuntu 6.06 server. Booting from a 40gb ide drive, no problems Trying to set up 3x160gb drives (2 sata, 1 ide) in a software raid 5 using mdadm. I had ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...

ITworld.com – Imagine you’ve just received shipment of a new Sun server, pre-installed with Solaris 9 and ready for setup as a web server for your small company. Now imagine that you want to take ...

What if you could build your own high-performance, scalable data storage solution for a fraction of the cost of commercial options? Imagine a sleek, compact system with swappable drives, RAID 5 ...