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Guide explains how to repurpose old hard drives into a RAID array

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.

engadget.com · 2026-10-12

NetBSD's 2026 GSoC project extends RAIDframe with N-way RAID 1 and disk scrubbing

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.

blog.netbsd.org · 2026-08-24