Apple’s Disk Utility is usually the go-to app for reformatting, partitioning, and diagnosing storage devices on your Mac. For many years, the Disk Utility app stayed the same in terms of features and ...

After some recent HD issues I've become somewhat paranoid about redundancy and backups, so I've decided to run a RAID1 setup. <BR><BR>I'm starting this from scratch with three fresh hard drives, and ...

A redundant array of independent disks (RAID) is when you use multiple drives to achieve higher speeds or to ensure data is better protected. There are many types of RAID, and with two drives you can ...

We usually store our photos, documents, and more on a single hard disk—or, increasingly these days, a solid state drive (SSD)—but there’s always the nagging worry that the disk will fail, taking all ...

I am taking delivery this week of my Dual Xeon computer and trying to decide the best route to go with a file server.<BR><BR>I am hoping to go with an external enclosure but get a wee bit confused by ...

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 ...

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 ...

When installing Windows XP, most of the time you'll find that it has the basic drivers it needs to install itself. However, sometimes you might need to intervene. This tends to be the case if you have ...

In recent time, RAID technology has been put into service in almost every application, such as desktops, servers, laptops, storage devices, and environments that require a large number of hard disk ...

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The odds of losing all your data are low, but never zero.