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.

I've currently got a 1.5 TB RAID 5 array (4x500GB Western Digital RE2), as well as a 1 TB and a 1.5 TB not in RAID, with my OS on an SSD. I believe the 1 TB is dying after years of heavy use, so I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. OWC has announced a new model of its ThunderBlade storage ...

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 ...

I was attempting an image backup of Small Business Server 2003 Std, prior to a migration to Small Business Server 2008 Std on a newer server. 1) I removed 1 of the 120GB WD disks in the RAID 1 array ...

The most common way to set up multiple storage drives is to configure a RAID array. Using RAID to combine multiple drives into a larger virtual drive will generally keep systems up and running despite ...

Make old hard drives fast again—why gamers should actually use RAID 0 ...

In simple layman’s terms, RAID is a technology that allows users to combine multiple physical disk drives into a single unit. This improves data storage performance and reliability, enhances data ...

A group of hard drives or solid state drives (SSDs) that are configured for increased speed and/or fault tolerance. See RAID. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

Infortrend has launched a serial-attached SCSI (SAS) RAID array. The EonStor ES 512F-R1420 has a 4Gb/se.c Fibre Channel link to the outside world and up to 64 drives are supported in 12 bays. It has ...

One of the first manufacturers to jump onboard was Gigabyte with its AORUS NVMe Gen4 SSD using a Phison controller. Today, however, we got to see first-hand how Gigabyte has tuned its Aorus Gen4 AIC ...

Why it matters: Micron at CES 2024 showcased what's possible when you combine several of its Crucial T700 2 TB PCIe Gen5 SSDs together with cutting-edge cooling technology. Micron loaded a modified ...