I'm trying to decide how best to use a pair of 4TB external USB3 disks in my file server. At this point I've pulled one of the disks from it's enclosure and installed it in the file server. Now I'm ...

In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...

I'm going to be swapping out the motherboard on my Ubuntu file server. I have a software RAID 5 set up on there using mdadm.<BR><BR>What do I need to do to get it back up and running once I do the ...

Sure, you can now get a terabyte of networked attached storage for under $1,000. But will that price buy you RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, and 5? Or an 8-port 10/100Mbps Ethernet LAN switch? Or built-in ...

That’s why you’ll often hear home lab enthusiasts and data-hoarders (including yours truly) mention the importance of extra ...