To recap the earlier post, the issue is the unrecoverable read error (URE) rate of SATA drives used in consumer storage arrays. With an unrecoverable read error rate ...

I will soon be upgrading my NAS to a new Synology, and was wondering about RAID levels. I'm currently running a RAID5 with (4) 2TB disks in a DS410j, which was set up before the advent of SHR. My plan ...

I got into an argument with a colleague about RAID levels (specifically RAID5) and whether the redundancy was accomplished through parity or ECC. The standard sources all refer to the RAID5 array ...