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2024-01-14 OWC Thunderblade X8: RAID-0 Stripe or Fault Tolerant RAID-4/RAID-5?

2022-08-29 Hard Drives: When a More Expensive Drive Costs a Lot Less

2020-01-05 OWC Mercury Accelsior M42 PCIe SSD: Running Two of Them Independently — Awesomely Fast (but don’t stripe 8 blades yet)

2016-11-26 OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-4 vs RAID-5 from 32KiB to 512MiB Transfers

2016-11-26 OWC 40TB SSD Sequential Transfer Speed: RAID-4 beats RAID-5 by 16% for Reads

2016-11-25 TESTED: OWC 40TB Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD with RAID-0 Stripe and RAID-4 Fault Tolerance

2015-11-18 SoftRAID RAID-4 / RAID-5 Performance with Heavy CPU load

2015-11-17 HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8: RAID-4, RAID-0, RAID-5 Scalability

2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?

2015-11-12 OWC Viper: 4TB or 8TB of Ultrafast SSD via Thunderbolt 2

2015-11-11 REVIEWED: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive, Singly and in RAID

2015-09-02 OWC Thunderbay can be Partitioned into Multiple RAID-5 Volumes

2015-05-22 RAID-5 Can Partitioned

2015-04-07 SoftRAID 5.0.7 Delivers Performance Enhancements

2014-12-06 OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: RAID-0 Striping vs RAID-5 vs RAID-4 vs RAID-10

2014-11-25 RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5: Does the CPU Usage Matter?

2014-11-23 RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5: Does the CPU Usage Matter?

2014-11-22 RAID-5 vs RAID-4: Which is Faster?

2012-04-04 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive for 16TB Inside a Mac Pro

2011-08-14 One Good Reason to use SoftRAID — Predicting Drive Failure

2011-03-13 Making a RAID-1 Mirror with SoftRAID 4

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RAID

Various types of RAID setups..

About Using Software RAID

Reasons for using software RAID, making the choice of RAID type, etc..

Software RAID Performance with SoftRAID 5

High performance RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, RAID-1+0..

OWC Thunderbay 4 Mini

High performance with 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs..

OWC 40TB SSD (in Thunderbay 4 Mini)

Ultra high flat-line performanc in 40 Terabyte capacity.

OWC ThunderBay 8

Eight bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..

OWC Thunderblade SSD

Ultra high speed robust pro-grade external SSD..

OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD

Fast 6 Gbps high capacity SSD..

HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8

Outstanding high-capacity enterprise hard drive..



Blog posts

2024

2024-01-14 OWC Thunderblade X8: RAID-0 Stripe or Fault Tolerant RAID-4/RAID-5?

2022

2022-08-29 Hard Drives: When a More Expensive Drive Costs a Lot Less

2020

2020-01-05 OWC Mercury Accelsior M42 PCIe SSD: Running Two of Them Independently — Awesomely Fast (but don’t stripe 8 blades yet)

2016

2016-11-26 OWC 40TB SSD: RAID-4 vs RAID-5 from 32KiB to 512MiB Transfers

2016-11-26 OWC 40TB SSD Sequential Transfer Speed: RAID-4 beats RAID-5 by 16% for Reads

2016-11-25 TESTED: OWC 40TB Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD with RAID-0 Stripe and RAID-4 Fault Tolerance

2015

2015-11-18 SoftRAID RAID-4 / RAID-5 Performance with Heavy CPU load

2015-11-17 HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8: RAID-4, RAID-0, RAID-5 Scalability

2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?

2015-11-12 OWC Viper: 4TB or 8TB of Ultrafast SSD via Thunderbolt 2

2015-11-11 REVIEWED: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive, Singly and in RAID

2015-09-02 OWC Thunderbay can be Partitioned into Multiple RAID-5 Volumes

2015-05-22 RAID-5 Can Partitioned

2015-04-07 SoftRAID 5.0.7 Delivers Performance Enhancements

2014

2014-12-06 OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: RAID-0 Striping vs RAID-5 vs RAID-4 vs RAID-10

2014-11-25 RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5: Does the CPU Usage Matter?

2014-11-23 RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5: Does the CPU Usage Matter?

2014-11-22 RAID-5 vs RAID-4: Which is Faster?

2012

2012-04-04 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive for 16TB Inside a Mac Pro

2011

2011-08-14 One Good Reason to use SoftRAID — Predicting Drive Failure

2011-03-13 Making a RAID-1 Mirror with SoftRAID 4

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