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 ...

Traditional RAID wastes your storage space: Why my 100TB NAS uses Unraid instead ...

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If the RAID controller is in the same family and manufacturer, it should work. You cannot move a RAID array to a different manufacturer, even with SCSI RAID. I would still do a complete tape backup of ...

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 ...

BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwired - Oct 7, 2013) - Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that its flagship line of FlashDisk RAID disk arrays now offer 10 Gb ...

RAID was created in 1988 in order to deal with costs of high-performing disk drives. The inventors argued that an array of inexpensive disks could outperform a single expensive disk, which was no ...

Big storage companies stopped recommending RAID 5 a couple of years ago. But I still see small 4-drive arrays touting RAID 5 for home and small office use. Big mistake. You want to save money, but you ...

Here's why you shouldn't mix different speed HDDs on your NAS ...