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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

RAID, or “redundant array of independent disks,” uses redundancy to provide a more robust disk-drive array capable of operation even with the loss of a drive (Fig. 1). RAID 1 replicates data with a 50 ...

As a happy owner of a Promise Pegasus3 R6 external RAID enclosure, I was excited to try the new Promise Pegasus R4i internal RAID MPX Module, a unit that’s been specifically designed for the Mac Pro.

It wasn't that long ago that we were all using regular old spinny disks for storage. Time was, you really wanted to use dedicated hardware for RAID arrays to get the best performance. Plugging them ...

LONGMONT, Colo., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ –Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq: HILL), a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open ...