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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So here's the problem, I have a machine with four hard drives. One of them has the system (Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS), the other three I want configured as a RAID-5 array via software RAID. ...with the ...

I have 3 1 TB HDDs and 3 500 GB HDDs. Right now each size grouping is in a RAID 5, both of which are in an LVM volume group (with striped LVs). I'm finding this to be too slow for my usage on small ...

In this article on non-standard RAID levels, Scott Lowe describes the advantages and disadvantages of RAID 5E and RAID 5EE. In my previous article on non-standard RAID levels, I talked a bit about ...

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 ...

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In simple layman’s terms, RAID is a technology that allows users to combine multiple physical disk drives into a single unit. This improves data storage performance and reliability, enhances data ...

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 ...