Lately, when I look at the specifications of new mainboards and their configuration, seeing SATA RAID or ATA RAID on the board comes as no surprise. Many of the manufacturers are now offering their ...

How do you calculate the disk space available for data storage and how much disk space is utilised for parity storage in a RAID 5 configuration? RAID 5, if applied correctly and against a suitable I/O ...

Ah, storage. Every PC needs it it, but your standard PC storage solutions suffer from two glaring frustrations. First off, storage performance tends to be one of the main bottlenecks in a typical PC, ...

Hard drives fail, and they do it much more often than we'd like to think. Even if you've set up automated hard drive backups, you're not necessarily getting the best backup bang for your ...

Today, RAID is fast and can speed up drive access on your Mac. Here's how to get started building your own, inexpensively. A Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) is a way to speed up your ...

Businesses can set up a redundant array of independent disks, or RAID, configuration to duplicate data on a device, protect against data failure or improve write performance on a volume. Some ASUS ...

Businesses that don't utilize cloud storage to back up their data -- and perhaps even those that do -- should consider making use of a redundant array of independent disks or RAID configuration to ...

My friend has a 4TB hard drive in an external enclosures for a couple years now, and wants to move them into a single RAID enclosure. I've suggested to him the following: 1. copy data from the old 4TB ...