A mirror only lets you use one disk in a stack in usable space (50%, or less if for some reason you want a double redundant mirror, i.e. three disks). A RAID-Z ...

The problem with any raid implementation besides raid1 is the ability to recovery from a simultaneous controller and drive failure. I've been working with raid systems since the late 1990s, and the ...

Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyone's attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. It's ...