The home lab ecosystem has a bunch of fascinating utilities that, if properly configured, can take your setup to the next level. That said, many of these can be double-edged swords, and if you’re not ...

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

Years ago, there were a lot of complications associated with implementing a RAID array in hardware (with or without a dedicated processor) or in software. What's come of that lately? Is there an ...

If the RAID controller is in the same family and manufacturer, it should work. You cannot move a RAID array to a different manufacturer, even with SCSI RAID. I would still do a complete tape backup of ...