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.

i really like the idea of putting tons of media files/ripped DVDs/etc on a central file server. the downsides are that i want to be able to expand the array in the future, when the drives get full.

That said, although I’ve got some RAID pools scattered across my Network-Attached Storage server, it’s nowhere near as ...

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RAID, Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, is a lot less relevant than it used to be. With super-fast SSDs and easy-to-use backup systems both easily available, the primary needs to chain multiple ...

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Is there a better setup to use for Vmware Server? I've been using individual raid 1 arrays on 4 drives, and someone asked why I don't use a raid 10. My justification is from a latency standpoint, that ...

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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 ...