RAID5 and RAID6 still work. Google “RAID5” and you’ll quickly find articles that warn you never to use it. The claim is RAID5 won’t protect your data and is doomed to failure. People even claim RAID6 (which protects against 2 drives failing) is dangerous. We’re here to tell you that for backup appliances this advice…
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Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) takes multiple disk drives and creates arrays that are resilient and highly available by mirroring and striping data across them. It also builds in the means to recover from disk failure using parity data. The different ways that mirroring, striping and parity are used defines the different RAID levels.…
Recently, we have been receiving numerous phone calls due to power outages we have been seeing across the country, as a result of the heat wave. As a built-in feature, when the NetSwap is interrupted due to either a loss of power, or an errant disk pull; if there is an active RAID/Mirror set, the…
Have you heard of the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR? Do you do business in Europe or with European citizens? The GDPR regulation is intended to protect the privacy of individuals and has wide ranging implications for technology companies and data backup. After four years of preparation and debate the GDPR was finally approved…
Please note, you will need a monitor and keyboard attached directly to the NetSwap along with a 4GB or larger USB flash drive. You will also need to save a copy of your current Config to restore your settings after the restore is complete. This can be done by selecting Export Configuration from the left-hand…