Apple offers a couple of software RAID solutions for people interested in either creating a larger disk out of two, or mirroring two disks together for data redundancy in the event of a drive failure.

raid 0 is striping. half the bits are on one drive, half the bits are on the other (or 1/X of the bits are on each of X drives). if one drive goes, the whole array is lost.<BR><BR>you're fooked. hope ...

Yesterday, Intel Storage Matrix reported that one of the drives in my RAID 1 array was having errors. I'm trying to troubleshoot the issue and diagnose if there's something wrong with the driver or ...

Businesses that don't utilize cloud storage to back up their data -- and perhaps even those that do -- should consider making use of a redundant array of independent disks or RAID configuration to ...

Years ago, no high-end PC was complete without a couple of boot drives configured in RAID 0. Today, things are a bit different. SSDs are available for reasonable prices, in high capacities, and with ...

The latest entry in a growing selection of Thunderbolt 2 capable storage solutions, G-Technology's G-SPEED Studio and G-RAID Studio RAID arrays incorporate high-capacity 6TB HDDs and ultra-fast I/O ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Figure 1. The vulnerable period begins when a drive in a RAID fails and lasts until the new drive ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

The best of both worlds.

I've used one Drobo or another since the first device came out in 2007. I bought the very first generation Drobo. It was slow, but I found the ease of use and reliability a big win. When the much ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...

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