RAID
Various types of RAID setups..
See also: RAID
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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
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
See also 4 pages at diglloyd.com
2023-06-12 Backup Headache: When Data Overflows a Single Backup Drive — what do do, and which Drives?
2019-01-10 Drives Full, Upgrading to OWC Thunderbay 6 with Six 14TB Drives (84TB total space)
2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?
Various types of RAID setups..
Reasons for using software RAID, making the choice of RAID type, etc..
High performance RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, RAID-1+0..
High performance with 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs..
Ultra high flat-line performanc in 40 Terabyte capacity.
Eight bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..
Ultra high speed robust pro-grade external SSD..
Fast 6 Gbps high capacity SSD..
Outstanding high-capacity enterprise hard drive..
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
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