Capable of putting extra HDDs and SSDs to good use, Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Drives (or RAID) is a neat feature when you’re as much of a data ...

In terms of raw price/performance, RAID 0 has the lowest cost. All disk space is used to store data; none is used for mirroring or parity data. Performance is good in terms of I/O, as data is striped ...

RAID takes the first place for data storing technology when you need high performance and reliability. It seems like having all facilities in a box such as large storage, fault-tolerance, parity check ...

Which RAID level should be used with three hard disks of 146 GB and one of 300 GB? All the main RAID levels are possible, but which RAID level you choose in this case depends on the criticality of the ...

There are six main types of RAID array architectures: RAID-0 through RAID-5. When combining RAID 0 and RAID 1 (sometimes called RAID 10), we actually have seven variants of RAID arrays. Each provides ...

Alongside a slew of other announcements today, Apple quietly introduced a new RAID card for the Mac Pro, available as an option from the online Apple Store. Apple says the card offers up to 304MB/s of ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...

Redundant disk systems reach small businesses. You can’t prevent hard disk drives from failing, but you can protect your data by using redundant disks. Often used in servers but rarely desktops, ...

Positioning it as a “cost efficient alternative to Apple’s Xserve RAID,” the dr group (formerly Dr RawStock) on Monday announced its DRaid Serial ATA RAID storage system. Aimed at digital content ...