What is RAID 5 RAID Level 5 is a cluster-level implementation of data striping with DISTRIBUTED parity for enhanced performance. Clusters can vary in size and are user-definable but they are typically blocks of 64 thousand bytes. The clusters and … Read More
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What is RAID 1 and its features, advantage and disadvantage?
What is RAID 1 RAID Level 1: Commonly called Mirroring RAID Level 1 is the pure implementation of data mirroring. In a nutshell RAID Level 1 gives you fault tolerance but it cuts your usable capacity in half and it … Read More
What is RAID 0 and its features, advantage and disadvantage?
RAID Level 0 Definition: RAID 0, or Redundant Array of Independent Disks, Level 0 – also called striping – is a method of storing data on multiple computer storage devices – usually hard disks or disk partitions – by interleaving … Read More
What is the difference between hardware RAID and software raid?
We have explained what raid is and the two types of raid, today we want to discuss the difference between hardware raid and software raid, as many users have been confused by them. Brief introduction about Hardware RAID The hardware-based … Read More
Explanation about RAID, hardware raid and software raid
As computer hardware become cheaper and cheaper, many users begin to use RAID and larger hard disks. To the people who want to use RAID, you’d better make it clear that what RAID is and what the kinds of raid are, … Read More
How to change cluster size without reformatting?
All file systems that Windows XP uses to organize the hard disk are based on cluster (allocation unit) size, which represents the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated to hold a file. The smaller the cluster size, … Read More
What is CHS (Cylinder/Head/Sector)?
Many computer users don’t know the hard drive components and how hard drive works. Do you know how files are stored in your hard drive? How Windows know whether the files are? How to read files from and write into … Read More
What is Partition Boot Sector?
Each partition (also sometimes called a “logical DOS volume” in the DOS/Windows world) has its own volume boot sector. This is distinct from the master boot sector (or record) that controls the entire disk, but is similar in concept. It … Read More