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 ...

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 ...

Edit: my last post is the most up to date, most other posts are just ramblings compared to the situation as it looks now...<BR><BR>I'm trying to fix my nieces computer here. She is extremely fond of ...

The combination of Linux software RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) and LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager, version 2) offered in modern Linux operating systems offers both robustness and ...

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 ...

If you are installing Lion on a RAID array or other custom drive setup, you may not be able to enable FileVault and other advanced volume management features. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

The newest Lacie Hard Disk MAX ups the storage of its original Neil Poulton ebony-glazed cuboid design to 2TB, while adding the ability to switch between RAID ...

Today, we continue our discussion of RAID 5. When it comes to RAID 5, rebuild times are affected by four things. The first parameter is the number of drives in the array: the more drives you have, the ...

The Serial ATA (sATA) disk drive interface market has recently experienced a significant increase in unit volume for enterprise and desktop systems. This is largely due to an industry-wide need to ...

You can use macOS Sierra’s Disk Utility app to create a software RAID, but you can also use it to delete the RAID. If you created a RAID using Disk Utility and now you don’t want to use the disks as a ...