This information is also available as a PDF download. Since I've been doing a lot of coverage of storage technology both for the enterprise and for the home lately, I thought I should give an ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

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 ...

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 ...

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, or Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, used to be the province of geeks and high-end IT departments. These days, however, it is finding a growing audience among small ...

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 ...

So here's the problem, I have a machine with four hard drives. One of them has the system (Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS), the other three I want configured as a RAID-5 array via software RAID. ...with the ...