I have 3 500GB drives. 2 of them were just until now in a RAID 1 array. Due to a BIOS reset that RAID 1 array was reset and now they're just identical non-RAID disks. The question is where I should go ...

I'm prepping for my next major build, and I'm considering some odd options. One of the boards I am looking at has 6x USB 3 connectors, which got me to thinking about setting up an external raid array ...

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 or Redundant Array of Independent Disks combines multiple disks into a single storage pool that the operating system views as a single drive. While enterprise systems use hardware RAID with a ...

Stevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...

RAID 5 explained: RAID 5 sees the distribution of parity information between all drives in the RAID set and is resilient against the failure of a single disk. So, how does RAID 5 share data in a 10 MB ...

I need to configure a server as RAID 5. The server has eight 146 GB drives. I want to make the C drive 20 GB, the G drive 75 GB and give the remaining space to the D drive. What’s the RAID 5 ...

How does RAID 5 reduce data loss? RAID 5 takes your data and adds some parity data that makes it possible to reconstruct the original data if there is a drive failure (RAID 6 is similar, except it can ...

Many of us are now shooting video in 4K/UHD resolution as opposed to HD. Whether we edit and deliver in 4K or not is a decision based on our commissioning requirements but either way, additional hard ...

It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options. Direct attached storage (DAS) is one of the most basic types of storage you can ...