I'm looking to spec out an expansion array for our existing iSCSI SAN to house the disks for the data portion of our file server. I'm looking for something in the neighborhood of 2TB to 3TB usable ...

I have a Windows Storage Server 2003 running on 3x 500GB SATA HDD in a RAID 5 array on a PERC 5/i card. The problem is we need more storage space, and therefore I was planning on buying 4x 1TB drives.

Unfortunately, the endless recesses of the Internet are filled with a bunch of misconceptions about RAID setups, and it’s ...