I've been running an Abit A7V with a built in Highpoint 374 RAID controller for a while. I used a RAID 0+1 array thinking that I would be able to survive a dead drive due to the mirroring. Long story ...
Theoretically, if you have a file that is split on 2 drives it can be read simultaneously from both drives. If you defrag that array, I'd guess that the file is then combined into one contiguous file ...
For example, if you created a mirrored RAID with a 300GB drive and a 500GB drive, 200GB of the 500GB drive would be wasted, because the drive would mirror only 300GB. Similarly, you lose any potential ...
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 ...
If you hear the term “RAID” and immediately think of World of Warcraft, then leave now and go back to your guild. In short, a RAID is a set of physical volumes configured via hardware or software to ...
When Apple released the new Retina MacBook Pro last October, it also marked the debut of Thunderbolt 2 in an Apple product. But with no Thunderbolt 2 peripherals available at the time, we here in the ...
RAID 10 vs RAID 50: What is the best way to configure a storage array with 16 1 TB drives and why? It is proposed to set up two these boxes. RAID 10 vs RAID 50: The RAID level you use will increase or ...
It seems like only yesterday when we were laughing at 32 bit storage and "gigabytes", "who would ever use that much space?" we asked ourselves? Now we have new forms of digital media such as Blu-ray ...