Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...
Due to a power surge, a client of mine has two drives fried out of their RAID 5 array (about seven disks total). There were no hot spares (and the Tape drive is in the mail!). The controller still ...
My home server with a six drive RAID 5 array crashed due to a power problem. My friend rebuilt the array but could not see any data on it-- it looked unpartitioned to him. He then reinstalled Windows ...
As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage might cost more than your PC did. So you definitely don't want any of those ...