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.

We've received some reports indicating that mounted RAID arrays can present problems with sleep for some Mac Pros. MacFixIt reader Alberto writes: "I can't sleep my machine normally -- a hang ensues ...

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 ...

Grow big or go home.

It's a simple question that's been on my mind for a while - can I build two RAID-0 arrays, using four hdds obviously, run from a single RAID controller ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are six main types of RAID array architectures: RAID-0 through RAID-5. When combining RAID 0 and RAID 1 (sometimes called RAID 10), we actually have seven variants of RAID arrays. Each provides ...

RAID is a bad idea for home users since its management complexity and failure modes create more problems than it solves. But protection from 1 - or better yet 2 - drive failures is a very GOOD idea.

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