Getting into the semantics of a "backup," by definition, RAID is a backup. A backup is just storing a second copy of your ...

I am running an ASRock K10N78hSLI-WiFi w/ XP Pro 32bit. I have installed 6 internal SATA drives (2 via controller card). I am looking at this to be added ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...