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 ...

If the inside of your Mac is no more mysterious to you than the inside of your sock drawer, an internal hardware RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) array may be the perfect way to add lots of ...

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 ...

Apple's Mac Pro computers have the capacity of holding up to four internal hard drives, and all Mac models support the use of external drives through either USB or FireWire. This allows for multiple ...

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 ...

Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

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 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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