RAID is one of the most common terms thrown around in the home lab ecosystem, though there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Despite offering some protection ...

RAID 2 is similar to RAID 5, but instead of disk striping using parity, striping occurs at the bit-level. RAID 2 is seldom deployed because costs to implement are usually prohibitive (a typical setup ...

RAID, or Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks, used to be the province of geeks and high-end IT departments. These days, however, it is finding a growing audience among small ...

Data is the lifeblood of many organizations and fast, reliable access to that data is critical in order to remain in business in today's "Internet-time" world. As such, most organizations make use of ...

In terms of raw price/performance, RAID 0 has the lowest cost. All disk space is used to store data; none is used for mirroring or parity data. Performance is good in terms of I/O, as data is striped ...

In recent time, RAID technology has been put into service in almost every application, such as desktops, servers, laptops, storage devices, and environments that require a large number of hard disk ...

Apple's Mac Pro computers have the capacity of holding up to four internal hard drives, and all Mac models support the use of external drives through either USB or FireWire. This allows for multiple ...