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A technical walkthrough details four common RAID configurations—RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10—that users can set up with spare hard drives. It explains how each configuration balances speed, storage capacity and data redundancy differently, from striping for performance to mirroring for safety.
Researchers at Saarland University's Big Data Analytics Group have published ExplainDB, a teaching DBMS written in Python paired with a set of Jupyter notebooks covering storage, indexing, and query processing. The materials accompany Prof. Jens Dittrich's Database Systems 2024/25 lecture series on YouTube and can be run directly in a browser via mybinder.org without installation.
The guide explains how to repurpose an old computer as a home media server by adding storage (ideally with redundancy like RAID) and installing server software such as Plex or Jellyfin to stream content across devices. It compares the two platforms, noting Plex's simplicity but paid features versus Jellyfin's free, more customizable but technical setup, particularly around GPU-based media transcoding.
As part of Google Summer of Code 2026, contributor Emmanuel Nyarko has been enhancing NetBSD's RAIDframe disk management system. The work adds an N-way RAID 1 extension letting mirrors span more than two disks with one primary and multiple secondaries, and introduces scrubbing support to proactively detect read failures across disks.