I just maxed out my Mac Pro drive bays and am new to RAID. My config:<br>Bay 1: 250GB stock Seagate with two partitions<br>Bay 2: 500GB WD5000AAKS<br>Bay 3: 500GB WD5000AAKS<br>Bay 4: 500GB ...

For example, if you created a mirrored RAID with a 300GB drive and a 500GB drive, 200GB of the 500GB drive would be wasted, because the drive would mirror only 300GB. Similarly, you lose any potential ...

Apple's Mac Pro computers have the capacity of holding up to four internal hard drives, and all Mac models support the use of external drives through either USB or FireWire. This allows for multiple ...

If you're looking for a 2-bay RAID setup for doing either mirrored (RAID 1) or striped (RAID 0) storage or backup, what do you want? Something pretty and shiny, or something that looks like it can ...

It’s quiz time: what’s the single most important thing in your Mac computing environment? Is it the actual Mac model you use? Is it the size of the display attached to the Mac? The speed of the CPU?

Western Digital's latest attempt to cash in on our general guilt over not backing up files is the My Book Mirror Edition. Effectively bridging the gap between a traditional standalone USB hard-drive ...

I've been running an Abit A7V with a built in Highpoint 374 RAID controller for a while. I used a RAID 0+1 array thinking that I would be able to survive a dead drive due to the mirroring. Long story ...

ITworld.com – In last week’s column, we examined the process of setting up RAID volumes on a Solaris 9 server. The process is surprisingly straightforward when there are no file systems on the target ...