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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Le terme RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks), définit une technologie permettant de combiner plusieurs disques durs pour ne former qu’une unité de stockage. Egalement connu sous le nom de ...

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 ...

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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 ...

I'm relatively new to Linux, so go easy on me. I have a server with CentOS 5 installed on it. I have 2 SATA hard drives in it, with several different software RAID 1 partitions set up on it. I'd like ...

If you've looked at your NAS running a RAID array and wondered what it would be like swapping those HDDs for some SSDs, you're not alone. After all, if RAID can make slower drives access data faster, ...

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 ...