I've got a RAID-6 array with ten Seagate 2TB NAS drives here. One of the drives started throwing medium errors after a reboot last night, so I'm going to replace it. I can't find the Seagate 2TB NAS ...

We have covered plenty of NAS HDDs here at TweakTown, and the reason is simple: more and more users are purchasing NAS units every day. The expansion of NAS capabilities allows them to serve a much ...

Doing a backup of a production RAID 1 array. I want to use GUI cloning software (Apricorn, Acronis, etc.) off of the source HDD's OS. Just to confirm, shouldn't the cloning software see the hardware ...

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If you were to gauge RAID 5’s utility just by looking at a RAID calculator, it would seem like an efficient option for most ...

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.

Tuning Raid performance has the air of a black art to storage administrators, with the perception that it can do more harm than good. Most consider the job done once the Raid level is selected. But, ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.

OWC’s Gemini, dual-bay Thunderbolt 3 HDD/SSD enclosure trounced the G-RAID Mirror in our testing, making it the fastest HDD RAID enclosure we’ve tested. While the Gemini will accept 2.5-inch SATA SSDs ...

In 2025, the choice of storage—HDD, SSD, or RAID—is critical to data security, performance, and uptime. SSDs provide quicker speed, cooler, quieter operation, and faster rebuilds in RAID ...