Preventing Data Loss During RAID & Drive Rebuilds (Part 2)

02 September 2025 02:23:28 EDT

This is a follow up to the original article Preventing Data Loss During RAID & Drive Rebuilds (Part 1). Several questions came up about RAID and drive rebuilds and preventing data loss since the...

02 September 2025 02:20:51 EDT

Preventing Data Loss During RAID & Drive Rebuilds (Part 1)

What happens when a RAID rebuild goes wrong, and what can be done to prevent that from happening to you? To answer the question, you need to understand how data is written to a RAID array and what...

16 August 2024 13:46:26 EDT

Data History Lesson: RAID Technology

When it comes to the IT industry, it’s not often that a technology developed many decades ago is still deemed important enough to still be widely used by administrators and other users. Even modern...

15 August 2024 11:09:52 EDT

RAID Configurations and Data Recovery

Ontrack and RAID data recovery Ontrack offers data recovery services for all major RAID architectures. This includes, RAID levels 0, 00, 1, 10, 1E, 1E0, 2, 3, 4, 5, 50, 5E, 5EE, 6 and 60. We also...

08 November 2023 06:12:42 EST

RAID system history and introduction

RAID stands for a Redundant Array of Independent (originally Inexpensive) Disks, and uses the concept of system redundancy (from RAID 1 & above) which can greatly minimise downtime suffered due to...

06 November 2023 02:34:56 EST

RAID 6: A blend of fault tolerance and performance

A RAID array is a collection of disks that are configured either by software or hardware in a certain way to protect data, enhance performance, or both. The term RAID stands for a redundant array of...

06 November 2023 02:18:24 EST

RAID 1: the system for better fault management

While the RAID system overall makes it possible to optimize data storage by distributing it over several hard disks, each configuration has its own advantages. RAID 1, which mirrors data, is...

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