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.

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If you've looked at your NAS running a RAID array and wondered what it would be like swapping those HDDs for some SSDs, you're not alone. After all, if RAID can make slower drives access data faster, ...

Users continue to report an issue we covered as part of our Mac OS X 10.4.2 special report where FireWire-based RAID drive arrays spontaneously unmount. MacFixIt reader Jan Faul is the latest to ...

Ok, I have a 1tb drive and will be adding another. Can I create an array with one empty and one with data? will it mirror the other? I know that raid does not = backup but raid 1 plus an external ...

Drobo's products have come a long way over the years. The company started with a 4-bay BeyondRAID array with a FireWire connection that was sold in one form or another for quite a few years, and has ...

I've got a RAID-6 array with ten Seagate 2TB NAS drives here. One of the drives started throwing medium errors after a reboot last night, so I'm going to replace it. I can't find the Seagate 2TB NAS ...