Sharpen your Server Skills: Server RAID

Understanding Server RAID requires a deep dive into concepts and terms. IOPS, latency, queuing, queue depth, kernel or controller-based RAID are some of the concepts to be mastered. Benchmarking storage arrays leads us to a deeper understanding of RAID types, failures tolerated, and why Storage Spaces and ReFS are different. ZFS a Linux alternative to controller-based RAID is growing. Understand the importance of “rebuild time”. Learn the importance of disk, controller, and operating systems caching. Why do controllers make sense for many RAID configurations? A look at nested RAIDs like RAID 10 and 60. Please consider becoming a channel member: • you get an early viewing of all our video content • access to the complete series of videos for each subject • links to video notes and PowerPoint slide deck both in MS Word and PDF format • Our eBook and resources folder • Join our channel membership, it’s $2.99/month); see the “Join” button on our channel homepage. https://www.youtube.c