We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Have you ever wondered how multiple storage drives in your computer can work as if they were one? Even more baffling is how a computer can ...

If your RAID controller supports RAID6, that is probably best (OK amount of space + the ability to lose two drives in the array before failure). But depending on the controller, you may not be able to ...

3ware, Inc., a leading provider of switched RAID solutions, is shipping its latest family of RAID controller cards based on Serial ATA specifications - the Escalade 8500 series. The Escalade 8500 ...

RAID storage, with the exception of RAID 0, uses redundancy to provide improved reliability. RAID 1 makes use of mirroring so that two drives contain the same information. The system continues to ...

Adaptec by PMC is hoping to ride a wave of resurgence into the enterprise RAID controller market with the recently launched Series 7. At the heart of this new series of RAID controllers is the radical ...

So, I had to migrate a drive from a single hard drive on the onboard SCSI controller to a pair of mirrored drives on a SmartArray RAID controller. No problem, I make an image with TrueImage and it ...

Why do people think RAID means performance? George Ou, Technical Director at ZDNet and a fellow ZDnet blogger, has a great post about real life RAID performance - hardware vs software - plus some ...