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.

Traditional RAID wastes your storage space: Why my 100TB NAS uses Unraid instead ...

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 ...

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 ...

How valuable is your data? If your storage drive crashed, would it ruin your day? Your week? Your entire career? Only you can answer those questions for yourself and your organization. But I'll tell ...

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 ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...

RAID 10 vs RAID 50: What is the best way to configure a storage array with 16 1 TB drives and why? It is proposed to set up two these boxes. RAID 10 vs RAID 50: The RAID level you use will increase or ...

Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

I have a RAID-6 array set up on one computer (let's call it the "server") and am mounting a directory via NFS from it onto another computer (the "client"). When I do any sort of operation on the ...

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 ...

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