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When I started writing about the NAS 4300, I thought it would be relatively short and would fit in one post. It looks like this post will ex...

Residual Value For this next entry I wanted to veer away from theory and practice to the experimental. From time to time broken equipment g...

In the prior post I explained how physical stripes including parity are laid out in a RAID 5 configuration. I introduced data mapping as a ...

In the previous post we learned about RAID configurations and how parity works. The last piece of the puzzle is striping algorithms. Strip...

RAID implemented on motherboards is becoming more common. The SATA standard includes many of the features of the SCSI command set used in m...

Now, we have to imagine how all the parts work together. The platters spin at reasonably high rates, anywhere from 3400 rpm (old drives) to...

Media really means material. The inside of a hard drive contains one or more platters or plates that are used to hold the magnetic informat...