Overview: RAID-enabled external storage provides better data protection and improved performance compared to single-drive ...

As useful as a NAS can be, it's also hardware that's really expensive to set up—a good NAS with several terabytes of storage ...

Stevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups. A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to ...

This is possibly the fastest, direct-attached, dual-drive RAID external enclosure you can buy. However, Thunderbolt 3 is pricey overkill for the far slower SATA. USB 3.1 will do the job, and for a lot ...

Aimed squarely at professionals like videographers, photographers, and musicians who produce mountains of data daily, the LaCie 2big RAID external hard drive earns kudos for design excellence in both ...

RAID 5 explained: RAID 5 sees the distribution of parity information between all drives in the RAID set and is resilient against the failure of a single disk. So, how does RAID 5 share data in a 10 MB ...

Solid state drives are increasingly common among consumers PCs, with many new devices shipping with SSDs. The drives are far more expensive than mechanical hard drives, but offer superior read and ...

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 ...

I've got a 4 bay QNAP and am wanting to toss some larger drives in seeing as black friday pricing is already starting to show up. I understand the process to migrate the entire existing RAID10 array ...

I'm a bit confused as to how quick-formatting works with RAID drives and when you need to do a full format.<BR><BR>I have two identical Seagate 320 Gb drives. When I added one of them to my system, ...

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Upgrading your NAS drives may seem deceptively simple, but there's a lot to worry about behind the scenes. Here's why.