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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Hard drives fail, and they do it much more often than we'd like to think. Even if you've set up automated hard drive backups, you're not necessarily getting the best backup bang for your ...

OK, there’s this thing geeks like to do that makes absolutely no sense, trying something just to try it. Like installing Windows ’95 on an Android Wear watch. I mean why? Why would anyone want to do ...