To recap the earlier post, the issue is the unrecoverable read error (URE) rate of SATA drives used in consumer storage arrays. With an unrecoverable read error rate ...

I will soon be upgrading my NAS to a new Synology, and was wondering about RAID levels. I'm currently running a RAID5 with (4) 2TB disks in a DS410j, which was set up before the advent of SHR. My plan ...

I got into an argument with a colleague about RAID levels (specifically RAID5) and whether the redundancy was accomplished through parity or ECC. The standard sources all refer to the RAID5 array ...

RAID5 is easily the most popular RAID level used today because it’s a great all-rounder. While there is no one area where RAID5 is the best, it does do everything pretty well and it maintains a decent ...

I spoke to the head of small company – about 25 employees – who had suffered a RAID5 drive failure. The 4TB RAID was used for file sharing. A drive failed, reconstruction failed and vendor phone ...