How should I set up my new HTPC's Hard Drives? [more inside]
posted by soy_renfield on Nov 12, 2009 - 11 answers

Best RAID / Backup system for HD video on a Mac Pro? [more inside]
posted by shinynewnick on Oct 13, 2009 - 13 answers

LaCie 5Big NAS hacks/modifications/tricks? [more inside]
posted by Señor Pantalones on Sep 13, 2009 - 4 answers

I have a Dell 2900 with with space for 8 drives (Perc 5/i). Is there any kind of expandable RAID configuration I can use so I don't have to buy 8, 2TB immediately? Any ideas on what way to do this? I would like something with the equivalent of a RAID5 level protection. [more inside]
posted by geoff. on Aug 22, 2009 - 4 answers

Is there any way to recover the files from a RAID 0 setup in a different computer? [more inside]
posted by Iax on Jul 22, 2009 - 9 answers

I need the best affordable solution for small business server/NAS with RAID. [more inside]
posted by Jackie_Treehorn on Jul 8, 2009 - 10 answers

Will I be able to access data from a RAID0 array on a computer other than the creator of the set? [more inside]
posted by ilumos on Jul 1, 2009 - 8 answers

How to tell if WD MyBook mirroring has failed or drive has died? [more inside]
posted by mysterious1der on Jun 26, 2009 - 3 answers

Building your own RAID, let's talk hardware options... [more inside]
posted by lundman on Jun 8, 2009 - 4 answers

I'm involved in a dispute about whose responsible for data. The basics: A RAID array in a small company's production server died. Under extreme pressure, the technician reconfigured the array, losing data in the process. The customer assured the tech the data was backed up. It wasn't. Now the customer says the tech should have checked the backup tapes before doing anything. Who is responsible for the data repair? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jun 8, 2009 - 9 answers

RAID 5 on the (Gigabyte) motherboard in Ubuntu Server? [more inside]
posted by xmutex on Apr 13, 2009 - 18 answers

Looking for recommendations on a 4-bay Firewire/USB2 RAID enclosure that works well with OS X. I'd also like to see recs for a eSATA equivalent, though I'm definitely leaning towards Firewire/USB2. Thanks!
posted by xmutex on Mar 29, 2009 - 9 answers

My Apartment was (wrongly) raided by the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and explosives....About 12 agents with bulletproofs vests came into my apartment and handcuffed me and my roomate, then promptly left the place when they found out they did wrong. I feel angered, offended and disillusioned by our system. Is there anyway I can put in a complain of any sort to stop this from happening again? This is their website: http://www.atf.gov/ [more inside]
posted by The1andonly on Mar 10, 2009 - 65 answers

I am creating a media center out of a high end Dell XPS Studio. I am using Dell hybrids as the extenders, but have a question about the storage/backup RAID setup I should use. [more inside]
posted by schindyguy on Feb 16, 2009 - 4 answers

Anyone own one of these? MvixBOX. I'm wondering if it lived up to your expectations.
posted by Area Control on Feb 8, 2009 - 3 answers

I just purchased two WD Caviar Black 500GB HDDs and I'm trying to figure out the best backup configuration for my home computer. [more inside]
posted by jluce50 on Feb 3, 2009 - 14 answers

What is the current best option for a home media server/storage? I think that hard drive prices may have finally fallen to the point where I might be able to put my DVDs on a server, but the options are overwhelming. [more inside]
posted by willnot on Jan 30, 2009 - 9 answers

Whats the best Media Center setup for a lot of data? [more inside]
posted by schindyguy on Jan 8, 2009 - 8 answers

SATA card for Vista 64? [more inside]
posted by notsnot on Oct 10, 2008 - 4 answers

Tell me about Network Attached Storage ( NAS )? In particular what current manufactuers should I avoid for a typical 1 terabyte (or greater) RAID array? I'm also interested in general information and pitfalls for NAS devices and implementations. [more inside]
posted by loquacious on Aug 10, 2008 - 13 answers

Joe's-Apartment-Filter: Advice and anecdotes on how to best roach-bomb our place? I'm moving and want to obliterate these monsters! [more inside]
posted by numinous on Aug 7, 2008 - 9 answers

A disk in your Server2003 software RAID fails: How do you know which physical disk to pull? [more inside]
posted by SlyBevel on Jul 28, 2008 - 10 answers

RAID HBA help sought: Server has its internal drives RAID'ed by an internal RAID card. I am trying to add another SCSI HBA card so I can hook up a nifty external SCSI-to-SATA RAID DAS tower. Problem is, however I install the new HBA, it "hides" the existing internal RAID card, meaning that the server doesn't find its own internal drives and can't boot. What to do? [more inside]
posted by bartleby on Jul 24, 2008 - 5 answers

What's a good external, roughly 1TB usable storage device that does its own RAID-1? [more inside]
posted by adipocere on Jul 6, 2008 - 13 answers

I have two hard drives out of a Western Digital Worldbook (WD10000D033) that both show up as a Linux RAID partition in cfdisk. How can I mount these drives to pull the data off?
posted by jackofsaxons on Apr 30, 2008 - 4 answers

Two quick computer hardware questions before I try setting up a new drive. [more inside]
posted by Ceci n'est pas une marionnette de chaussette on Apr 21, 2008 - 2 answers

Help me make sense of my wonky RAID-5 failure. [more inside]
posted by Jezztek on Apr 20, 2008 - 5 answers

I have two workstations running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise that function as a PDC/BDC, with the PDC also functioning as a file server. Is there any way I can set up a sort of "network RAID" where the BDC will also act as a file server that continually mirrors the files on the PDC? [more inside]
posted by Ziggy Zaga on Apr 11, 2008 - 8 answers

Does anyone know good IDE Raid enclosures? I currently own two 250 gig IDE hard drives and want to set them up in a single RAID enclosure. I have been looking around for a while but can only find SATA raid enclosures. [more inside]
posted by chunking express on Apr 8, 2008 - 7 answers

What is the best way to upgrade a RAID 5 Array to bigger size hard drives? [more inside]
posted by deadparrot on Apr 4, 2008 - 3 answers

Linux filter: I have a Fedora8 machine set up acting as a file server. I want to boot to software RAID5. More inside. [more inside]
posted by gjc on Mar 15, 2008 - 5 answers

I would like to recover data from two SATA hard drives that were once part of a single logical partition under Linux [more inside]
posted by KirTakat on Mar 8, 2008 - 2 answers

How can I make a growable hardware RAID-5 Linux system? Is LVM the right choice, or am I setting myself up for trouble? Lots of geeky details follow. [more inside]
posted by Kadin2048 on Mar 1, 2008 - 10 answers

I am trying to find external storage that is accessible via wireless networking. One important caveat is that it has to be RAID-capable. [more inside]
posted by fusinski on Feb 12, 2008 - 15 answers

How to recover from sync-ing a RAID 1 the wrong way? [more inside]
posted by notsnot on Feb 6, 2008 - 11 answers

Can a RAID-5 array created on one computer transfer to another computer, data intact? The kicker: different SATA controllers. [more inside]
posted by cameradv on Jan 21, 2008 - 13 answers

nvidia RAID: Can I just turn it off? [more inside]
posted by maxwelton on Jan 20, 2008 - 5 answers

Got a 2000 server with PCI SCSI RAID card (Mirror) and the mobo seems to have died. I just want to recover the data and host it on another machine. How do I do that? [more inside]
posted by tslugmo on Jan 18, 2008 - 4 answers

What will happen if I set up Windows Home Server with all of my existing external drives? [more inside]
posted by jbiz on Dec 7, 2007 - 4 answers

I know it's early in the morning, but hopefully someone who can help is out there. My RAID-5 array just went titsup...while attempting to add a disk. Please tell me I didn't lose a terrabyte of mostly irreplaceable data... [more inside]
posted by geckoinpdx on Nov 25, 2007 - 8 answers

What can I do with 4 big IDE drives? [more inside]
posted by ImJustRick on Sep 12, 2007 - 15 answers

The amount of data I now have makes it impractical to continue backing up to DVD. I was planning on building a RAID 5 array, but I'm in over my head. [more inside]
posted by tumult on Sep 7, 2007 - 16 answers

How did *you* achieve a software RAID 10 (or 1+0) setup on your RHEL5 (or 4) box? [more inside]
posted by quasistoic on Aug 31, 2007 - 12 answers

I'm hoping you can help me find a RAID 5 capable enclosure without disks, with some further requirements inside, for my in construction media server storage. [more inside]
posted by John Kenneth Fisher on Aug 4, 2007 - 10 answers

Nowhere else to ask this filter: I have a xbox Debian (Xebian) xbox and it has (had) a raid drive of two 300GB drives. But now for some reason it got a bunch of errors and I can't get it up and running again. [more inside]
posted by Napierzaza on Jul 16, 2007 - 1 answer

One of the disks in my hardware RAID 0 system drive array is failing, but it's still booting for the moment. Is there any tool I can use to clone just the failing physical disk to another identical one? [more inside]
posted by nnovik on Jul 6, 2007 - 9 answers

So my server reset while my RAID array was synchronizing... now my files are corrupt? :-( [more inside]
posted by wfrgms on Jun 18, 2007 - 8 answers

I need some help and some hand-holding with hard drive recovery on a failed main drive in a Windows Server 2003 RAID 5 array. [more inside]
posted by Oops on Apr 21, 2007 - 7 answers

What happened to my RAID setup today? [more inside]
posted by drgonzo2k2 on Apr 19, 2007 - 4 answers

My RAID is failing to rebuild: help! Every time I try and rebuild it with a new drive, the rebuilding fails. [more inside]
posted by baggers on Apr 13, 2007 - 14 answers