This RAID calculator computes array characteristics given the disk capacity, the number of disks, and the array type. Input - enter your RAID parameters here. Single disk size, GB. Remember that RAID is not perfect. You can still lose the array to the controller failure or operator error.

RAID arrays are becoming popular. There are several causes of such popularity - RAIDs allow to improve performance. Like RAID0, and avoid a data loss. In case of some failure as it is with RAID 5 and RAID6. There are a lot of different RAID types. Data recovery process in case of a RAID0 failure;. What you can do and what you cannot do with a RAID0.

RAID 10 is the popular array type, because it provides both read and write performance increase and data redundancy. How RAID 10 works,. What types of RAID 10 do exist,. What you need to do should your array fail. We also have a lot of various diagrams illustrating how the data blocks are written and aligned in RAID 10. General information on RAID arrays. More details about RAID 10. Information about specific RAID 10 variations.

Detailed description of basic RAID 5 variations with diagrams illustrating parity and data block patterns. Complex RAID 5 variations, also graphically illustrated. Basic considerations for manual array recovery. Recovering RAID 5 with automated software.

Saturday, June 9, 2012. One cannot start an OS from a software RAID0, RAID 5, or JBOD. A hardware controller is needed to do this. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. One of the main data recovery policies is to check the restored files.