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.

Last week we noted a problem where users who upgraded to DiskWarrior 3.0.3 are not able to boot various Mac models with the upgraded startup CDs. For clarification, the free downloadable update of ...

The folks over at Apricorn - a 26 year old company in SoCal - sent me their new PCIe Drive Array to review. A new video capture card requires higher bandwidth storage - over 100 MB/s sustained - so ...

As a happy owner of a Promise Pegasus3 R6 external RAID enclosure, I was excited to try the new Promise Pegasus R4i internal RAID MPX Module, a unit that’s been specifically designed for the Mac Pro.

You've all heard about it. Direct to CPU RAID that is bootable. Direct to CPU RAID can deliver the full throughput potential of your storage array because it is not done through the limited bandwidth ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. OWC has announced a new model of its ThunderBlade storage ...

I was attempting an image backup of Small Business Server 2003 Std, prior to a migration to Small Business Server 2008 Std on a newer server. 1) I removed 1 of the 120GB WD disks in the RAID 1 array ...

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 ...

Your computer's basic input/output system controls system-level hardware settings. For example, the BIOS has an "official" system clock. It also handles keeping track of physical hard drives, deciding ...

The most common way to set up multiple storage drives is to configure a RAID array. Using RAID to combine multiple drives into a larger virtual drive will generally keep systems up and running despite ...

It wasn't that long ago that we were all using regular old spinny disks for storage. Time was, you really wanted to use dedicated hardware for RAID arrays to get the best performance. Plugging them ...

RAID, or “redundant array of independent disks,” uses redundancy to provide a more robust disk-drive array capable of operation even with the loss of a drive (Fig. 1). RAID 1 replicates data with a 50 ...