Ever since its invention in the late 1980s, Raid (redundant array of inexpensive disks) has been a mainstay of data protection on shared storage arrays and in enterprise servers. But, as the capacity ...

Today, RAID is fast and can speed up drive access on your Mac. Here's how to get started building your own, inexpensively. A Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) is a way to speed up your ...

The storage version of Y2k? No, it's a function of capacity growth and RAID 5's limitations. If you are thinking about SATA RAID for home or business use, or using RAID today, you need to know why.

Apple’s Disk Utility is usually the go-to app for reformatting, partitioning, and diagnosing storage devices on your Mac. For many years, the Disk Utility app stayed the same in terms of features and ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

The history of RAID can be regarded as the history of redundancy due to data distribution. In the figure, green represents the parity that protects the data, and yellow represents the hot spare that ...

Am I missing something here... ? It was my understanding that with a RAID setup, it was possible to increase performance (not taking into account reliability) above that of a single disk. Let's say I ...

What is RAID, why do you need it, and what are all those mode numbers that are constantly bandied about? RAID stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” or “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks ...

It’s quiz time: what’s the single most important thing in your Mac computing environment? Is it the actual Mac model you use? Is it the size of the display attached to the Mac? The speed of the CPU?

My friend has a 4TB hard drive in an external enclosures for a couple years now, and wants to move them into a single RAID enclosure. I've suggested to him the following: 1. copy data from the old 4TB ...