The following table shows the difference between 146GB RAID 5 IOPS/TB and 300GB RAID 10 IOPS/TB.
Each column represents a different Read percentage (the Write percentage is the inverse).
Negative numbers mean that for this Read percentage and IOPS requirement, RAID 10 gives more IOPS/TB of disk. Positive numbers mean that RAID 5 gives better…

I recently started using Symantec’s Backup Exec for Windows to backup files from a Samba share. I joined the Samba machine to the domain and gave the backup user permissions to the share but the backup kept getting access denied errors. It turns out that Backup Exec doesn’t connect directly to the share (at…