Computer Weekly

RAID 5 recovery: What is the maximum number of physical drives in a RAID 5 configuration?

What is the maximum number of physical drives in a RAID 5 configuration? For example, will data recovery in case of drive failure(s) be practical if I have seven 146 GB drives? RAID 5 recovery: A RAID ...
Computer Weekly

RAID 5 configuration: How to calculate disk space for data storage and parity storage

How do you calculate the disk space available for data storage and how much disk space is utilised for parity storage in a RAID 5 configuration? RAID 5, if applied correctly and against a suitable I/O ...
Ars Technica

Intel Matrix RAID - Converting single drive to RAID5?

I have a P5B-E and had been running off a single 500GB boot drive. I added 4 more 500GB drives today and tried to make a single 2TB boot volume but the BIOS utility wouldn't let me select all 5 drives ...
ZDNet

Comprehensive RAID performance report

As you can see from the throughput chart, the RAID5 (with four drives), all out sequential performance is out of this world at 218 MB/sec (1.744 gbps) read and 193 MB/sec (1.544 gbps) write, which ...