RAID-Z1, on the other hand, gets rid of it entirely. While it stores data and parity information in different disk layouts, ...

My home server with a six drive RAID 5 array crashed due to a power problem. My friend rebuilt the array but could not see any data on it-- it looked unpartitioned to him. He then reinstalled Windows ...

Well, the inevitable finally happened. I have a user who had a Lacie "Big Disk" 1tb raid (4x250gb). I warned them to only use it for scratch disk, they stored files on it instead, and now 1 drive is ...