Ever since its invention in the late 1980s, Raid (redundant array of inexpensive disks) has been a mainstay of data protection on shared storage arrays and in enterprise servers. But, as the capacity ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

With the recent changes in my HW inventory I ended up with two almost identical Samsung F1 1TB drives. One is currently my OS drive and the other one is a multimedia storage one. Now, I am thinking ...

RAID 50 offers a balance of performance, storage capacity, and data integrity Your email has been sent RAID 50 is an often overlooked RAID level that can bridge the gap when it comes to choosing ...

I'm looking at the differences between SHR and RAID5, and trying to figure out what the "catch" is if I went with SHR. As far as I can tell, it's basically "You can't move SHR drives to a non-Synology ...

RAID technology requires dynamic disks. Hence, if you want to set up RAID 1 on your Windows 11/10 device, you need to convert your disks into dynamic disks. One such advantage of converting basic ...

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 ...

What is RAID, why do you need it, and what are all those mode numbers that are constantly bandied about? RAID stands for “Redundant Array of Independent Disks” or “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks ...