What are the current best practices when doing software raid when it comes to dealing with the /boot partition? It seems to me that it's not much of a RAID array if losing 1 dive out of 4 is ...

What is the maximum number of physical drives in a RAID 5 configuration? For example, will data recovery in case of drive failure(s) be practical if I have seven 146 GB drives? RAID 5 recovery: A RAID ...

How do you calculate the disk space available for data storage and how much disk space is utilised for parity storage in a RAID 5 configuration? RAID 5, if applied correctly and against a suitable I/O ...

I have a P5B-E and had been running off a single 500GB boot drive. I added 4 more 500GB drives today and tried to make a single 2TB boot volume but the BIOS utility wouldn't let me select all 5 drives ...