Theoretically, if you have a file that is split on 2 drives it can be read simultaneously from both drives. If you defrag that array, I'd guess that the file is then combined into one contiguous file ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you hear the term “RAID” and immediately think of World of Warcraft, then leave now and go back to your guild. In short, a RAID is a set of physical volumes configured via hardware or software to ...

Western Digital’s My Book Studio Edition II is an external hard drive that uses two drives, pre-configured as a fast RAID 0 (striped) array. Our test unit came with two 500GB WD Green Power drives ...

It seems like only yesterday when we were laughing at 32 bit storage and "gigabytes", "who would ever use that much space?" we asked ourselves? Now we have new forms of digital media such as Blu-ray ...