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.

Big storage companies stopped recommending RAID 5 a couple of years ago. But I still see small 4-drive arrays touting RAID 5 for home and small office use. Big mistake. You want to save money, but you ...

Striping and parity across three drives, oh my! Of all the RAID levels that consumers are likely to use on their home systems, RAID 5 is one of the more exotic choices. While RAID 0 and 1 are pretty ...

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Mac Pro: RAID arrays interfering with sleep? "I can't sleep my machine normally -- a hang ensues when a SATA RAID 0 array is mounted. If I unmmount the RAID 0 volume first,i always can sleep the ...

BILLERICA, MA--(Marketwired - Oct 7, 2013) - Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that its flagship line of FlashDisk RAID disk arrays now offer 10 Gb ...

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I realize this may be dependent on the specific configuration and demands required by individual VMs/applications, but this is more of a general question if you are building a new server for ...