RAID or Redundant Array of Independent Disks combines multiple disks into a single storage pool that the operating system views as a single drive. While enterprise systems use hardware RAID with a ...

We have had quite a few discussions about the differences between hardware and software RAID and I am hoping I can get some input on the topic. For instance let's say I had 10 TB I wanted to mirror as ...

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.

NAS and server technologies have evolved a lot over the last two decades, both on the software and hardware fronts. However, the fall of hardware-based RAID over the last decade remains a major ...

Of course. Here's how. As the comments on my recent post Apple's new kick-butt file system showed, some folks can't believe that software RAID could be faster than a modern hardware RAID system. But ...

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 ...

Drives can die at any time. Protect your data. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Creating a software RAID 1 array in Linux takes ...

RAID, redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, is a system that employs two or more disk drives in combination, through hardware or software, for performance and fault tolerance. RAID ...

Apple’s Disk Utility is usually the go-to app for reformatting, partitioning, and diagnosing storage devices on your Mac. For many years, the Disk Utility app stayed the same in terms of features and ...

Boyfriend and I run a variety of things in-house - a web server, a file server, and several online multiplayer games that he's designed. We're building a new server (right now the non-game stuff runs ...