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Moving beyond RAID and XRAID2
Most consumer and even pro-sumer NAS boxes use a form of RAID typically RAID1 or RAID5 or something that looks very similar to these. I think one can justifiably argue that a ReadyNAS Pro with six dri...
sphardy wrote:
jelockwood wrote:
There are now newer more advanced schemes for protecting data compared to the original RAID schemes and I am not just referring to using more redundant drives.
Such as?
The third article I linked to talks about this. I don't claim to be an expert on that technology but it is clear to even normal people that RAID is not able to cope with the size of modern drives. I suppose in theory if speed had increased at the same rate as capacity has so that the time to rebuild had not grown then that would have prevented the problem. Unfortunately the speed of traditional hard disks has not grown fast enough and as a result the time to rebuild is now a danger.
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