Unfortunately for RAID 5, there are some controllers and available guides that default to this RAID type, regardless of drive ...

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.

Striping and parity across three drives, oh my! Of all the RAID levels that consumers are likely to use on their home systems, RAID 5 is one of the more exotic choices. While RAID 0 and 1 are pretty ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...

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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Apricorn have just unveiled their latest innovation to increase your Mac Pro’s speed by up to 10 times, using their High Performance Internal SSD RAID Array for Mac Pro. The new SSD Array easily ...

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 ...

I tried this a few times, and all I'm coming away with is that raid 1 via mdadm is making my data less safe. Okay, so I created the raid 1, and /proc/mdstat looks good. I forgo the LVM nonsense and ...

We've received some reports indicating that mounted RAID arrays can present problems with sleep for some Mac Pros. MacFixIt reader Alberto writes: "I can't sleep my machine normally -- a hang ensues ...