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As a topic, backups is one of those subject likely to elicit as many answers as people you ask about it. It is as personal a choice as your desktop configuration or your operating system. So in this ...

Ah, storage. Every PC needs it it, but your standard PC storage solutions suffer from two glaring frustrations. First off, storage performance tends to be one of the main bottlenecks in a typical PC, ...

The combination of Linux software RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) and LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager, version 2) offered in modern Linux operating systems offers both robustness and ...

Software RAID failure does not have redudancy of hardware RAID. You will have to replace hardware, reinstall OS, restore from backup. Get a hardware RAID controller ...