This makes erasure coding more economical than RAID. As Bryan Betts, analyst at Freeform Dynamics, notes, the simplest form of EC uses “half codes” for each piece of data. So the coding adds a ...

What's odd is that you seem to get that a RAID-5 isn't backup. If one drive in a 3-drive R5 array dies, I can recover the data from the remaining two (have actually done this in the past), much as ...

But raid 0 is kinda pointless. The performance increase will probally be so small you won't notice and the aggrevation if breaking raid array probally won't be worth it.<BR><BR>You need a backup ...

Miglia Technology on Thursday announced the addition of FireWire 800 support to its MediaBank HS-R RAID backup and storage solution. The device sports two removable drive trays and hardware-based ...