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 ...

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The latest entry in a growing selection of Thunderbolt 2 capable storage solutions, G-Technology's G-SPEED Studio and G-RAID Studio RAID arrays incorporate high-capacity 6TB HDDs and ultra-fast I/O ...

I was attempting an image backup of Small Business Server 2003 Std, prior to a migration to Small Business Server 2008 Std on a newer server. 1) I removed 1 of the 120GB WD disks in the RAID 1 array ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Figure 1. The vulnerable period begins when a drive in a RAID fails and lasts until the new drive ...

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 ...

Modern storage arrays offer disk types to meet any need--costly Fibre Channel (FC) disks for high-end applications requiring superior performance and availability, and lower-priced SATA disks for less ...

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 odds of losing all your data are low, but never zero.

RAID is a bad idea for home users since its management complexity and failure modes create more problems than it solves. But protection from 1 - or better yet 2 - drive failures is a very GOOD idea.