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.

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 ...

Apple's Mac Pro computers have the capacity of holding up to four internal hard drives, and all Mac models support the use of external drives through either USB or FireWire. This allows for multiple ...

The most common way to set up multiple storage drives is to configure a RAID array. Using RAID to combine multiple drives into a larger virtual drive will generally keep systems up and running despite ...

Years ago, no high-end PC was complete without a couple of boot drives configured in RAID 0. Today, things are a bit different. SSDs are available for reasonable prices, in high capacities, and with ...

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 ...

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We have a RAID array connected to a file server through a Fibre Channel switch. We want to add a second server. Can we just plug the new server into the Fibre Channel switch and share the RAID storage ...

* Can you connect array to Fibre Channel switch and share RAID storage? By Steve Blass Q: We have a RAID array connected to a file server through a Fibre Channel switch. We want to add a second server ...

Infortrend has launched a serial-attached SCSI (SAS) RAID array. The EonStor ES 512F-R1420 has a 4Gb/se.c Fibre Channel link to the outside world and up to 64 drives are supported in 12 bays. It has ...

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

Why it matters: Micron at CES 2024 showcased what's possible when you combine several of its Crucial T700 2 TB PCIe Gen5 SSDs together with cutting-edge cooling technology. Micron loaded a modified ...