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The Joy of RAID
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is a way to duplicate your data across multiple drives so that if one fails you can replace it and you lose nothing. That's the theory anyway. In practice, things always find a way to become much more complicated. I've written up the story of my recent experience with drive failure in the RAID5 array in my home server. If you're relying on a software RAID5 setup to protect your data, you may want to study my "lessons learned". Read More...
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