hard drives

Maximum Number of Disks In RAID 5

by on December 4, 2010 · 2 comments

Is there a limit to how many drives you can have in one RAID-5? What is the maximum number of physical drives recommended in a RAID-5 set?

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Linux Disable USB Devices (Disable loading of USB Storage Driver)

by on March 16, 2009 · 29 comments

In our research lab I’d like to disable all USB devices connected to our HP Red Hat Linux based workstations. I’d like to disable USB flash or hard drives, which users can use with physical access to a system to quickly copy sensitive data from it. How do I disable USB device support under RHEL 5.x workstation operating systems?

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FreeBSD: Get / Read Hard Disk Temperature Using smartd Tools

by on October 17, 2007 · 0 comments

How do I read my hard disk temperature using smartool under FreeBSD operating system?

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Howto rebuilding a RAID array after a disk fails

by on May 27, 2006 · 4 comments

Q. I have two disk-mirrored array, suppose if one of my disk in mirrored RAID array fails, then I will replace that disk with new one (I have hot swapping SCSI drives). Now question is how I rebuild a RAID array after a disk fails. A. A redundant array of inexpensive disks, (redundant array of [...]

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