RAID Recovery - Scanning process of SAN
Scanning process of SAN is quite challenging job for many users. But the understanding SAN infrastructure can help administrators to know the environment with detailed information and also with the clue when to change them accordingly. Different modern tools with different capabilities are available to assists them.
BrightStor SAN designer, [...]
RAID Recovery - Can SAN management tool be a help
SAN management can be a great help if the users are aware of the specific situations to apply. Keith Lynch, who is the principle consultant of Intellinet, has clearly said that SAN management equipments that are specially vendor specific offer the most reliable granular control of [...]
RAID Recovery - Keep SAN cool
With the increasing popularity of computer and server systems, temperature of SAN should be tracked to decrease the chance of failure.
2.5-inch drives and blade servers’ developments have immensely increased the compactness of storage products. They can save floor space but equipment’s life is bound to be affected negatively. With the [...]
RAID Recovery - Enterprise-class RAID functions
RAID is progressively becoming popular among small as well as medium sized enterprises for its accuracy, timely result and enhancement for data protection. Some basic functions of RAID come along with most of the operating systems, such RAID include RAID 0 which boosts the performance and RAID 1 which minimises [...]
RAID Recovery - Mistakes can kill RAID
Users are expected to have rough and ready knowledge of all the functions of RAID to minimize risks and malfunctions in RAID drives. One of the best reasons to use it is to achieve state of excellent performance and enhance reliability with mirroring in operating systems; for example, RAID [...]
RAID Recovery - Positioning and transfer performance
Implementations of RAID levels vary not only on to which degree they improve read and write performance but also how they affect different kinds of read as well as write data accessibility. Data access to a single hard disk requires two tasks: getting the position of the head of [...]
RAID Recovery - Continual importance of backups
Almost all the RAID levels use striping which distributes data into small pieces across multiple drives in the array. It might improve performance but can be risky for data integrity for obvious reason. For example, if a file goes on a striped array, partial part of each file is [...]
RAID Recovery - Comparing the uses of software RAID on Windows and Linux
The key idea of using RAID, abbreviation of Redundant Array of Inexpensible (independent) disk, is to combine small, multiple and independent disk drives into an array to enhance the overall performance, reliability and recoverability in comparison to a Single Large Inexpensive drive. Almost [...]
RAID Recovery - Advanced RAID functions
N-way mirroring, splitting and hiding
N-way mirroring, array hiding, and array splitting are the collection of advanced features. While these comprehensive features are united, offer most demanding features- data protection against threats of system, unintentional data deletion and viruses. They all support wide range of performance. For example, N-way mirroring provides [...]
RAID Recovery - Reasons of preferring Linux software RAID
There are many reasons of using Linux software RAID:
1. Linux software RAID is very powerful for developed hardware as well as software biodiversity.
2. It helps eliminating SPOF that means single points of failure in comparison to similar configuration of hardware RAID
3. RAID 5 XOR speed increases with [...]
