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.

Here's our essential guide to all the different types of RAID setup. It's almost as if camera manufacturers are somehow dedicated to keeping hard disk manufacturers in business. By the early 2000s, it ...

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It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options. Direct attached storage (DAS) is one of the most basic types of storage you can ...

In the late 1980s, processing power and memory performance were increasing by more than 40% each year. However, due to mechanical limitations, hard drive performance was not able to keep up. To ...

If you've ever looked into purchasing a NAS device or server, particularly for a small business, you've no doubt come across the term "RAID." RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or ...

RAID controllers are a lot of things to different people. Some like me, a power user, is able to tune the RAID block size for general use computing, balancing the small file IOPS with large sequential ...

Ok, I have a 1tb drive and will be adding another. Can I create an array with one empty and one with data? will it mirror the other? I know that raid does not = backup but raid 1 plus an external ...

Promise Technology's Pegasus2 RAID storage solution was one of the first products to sport the latest Thunderbolt 2 , offering blazingly fast read/write speeds for data-intensive operations. Following ...