Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Backing up your data is like taking out the trash or ...

The most common way to set up multiple storage drives is to configure a RAID array. Using RAID to combine multiple drives into a larger virtual drive will generally keep systems up and running despite ...

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 ...

Years ago, no high-end PC was complete without a couple of boot drives configured in RAID 0. Today, things are a bit different. SSDs are available for reasonable prices, in high capacities, and with ...

Businesses that don't utilize cloud storage to back up their data -- and perhaps even those that do -- should consider making use of a redundant array of independent disks or RAID configuration to ...

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.

It's affordable and easy to manage -- two qualities you rarely hear mentioned about storage. We test your RAID options. Direct attached storage (DAS) is one of the most basic types of storage you can ...

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 ...

Tuning Raid performance has the air of a black art to storage administrators, with the perception that it can do more harm than good. Most consider the job done once the Raid level is selected. But, ...

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 ...

RAID: It’s not just for Warcraft nerds anymore. If you’ve got a ton of music, photos and video and you don’t know about RAID hard-drive arrays yet, read this—or wave your precious media files buh-bye.