We would like a RAID system to provide data protection in a small office. Can you say whether a hardware or a software RAID system is a better option? Also, is RAID 1 or RAID 5 the more reliable ...

When I went to upgrade my suped-up iMac the other night, I made a very unpleasant discovery. I have multiple 1TB SSD drives in my old iMac, three in fact, two of which are combined together in a RAID ...

Of course. Here's how. As the comments on my recent post Apple's new kick-butt file system showed, some folks can't believe that software RAID could be faster than a modern hardware RAID system. But ...

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, ...

The problem with any raid implementation besides raid1 is the ability to recovery from a simultaneous controller and drive failure. I've been working with raid systems since the late 1990s, and the ...

This was among the driving forces behind the development of the Serial ATA standard, which showed potential to address these issues. Now in its second revision, SATA is delivering what system builders ...

Review: If serious grunt and reliabilty in the storage stakes is what you need, we take a good look at G-Technology's Thunderbolt 3 Shuttle XL RAID enclosure system. If there’s one thing that you ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. By now, most broadcasters have heard the term RAID. RAID stands for redundant array of ...

* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass offers advice on selecting the best RAID system for a small office * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter offers advice on using VLANs on a small network * Selecting the ...