Apple offers a couple of software RAID solutions for people interested in either creating a larger disk out of two, or mirroring two disks together for data redundancy in the event of a drive failure.

It's not hardware RAID. The RAID is handled by the BIOS (firmware, still running on your CPU) until Windows starts to boot, at which point Intel's driver (Matrix Storage Manager, i.e. software) takes ...

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I have 3 1 TB HDDs and 3 500 GB HDDs. Right now each size grouping is in a RAID 5, both of which are in an LVM volume group (with striped LVs). I'm finding this to be too slow for my usage on small ...

* Selecting the best RAID system for a small office By Steve Blass Q: We would like a RAID system to provide data protection in a small office. Can you say whether a hardware or a software RAID system ...

Redundant disk systems reach small businesses. You can’t prevent hard disk drives from failing, but you can protect your data by using redundant disks. Often used in servers but rarely desktops, ...

Squashed Software (formerly Maza Digital) has released RAID Monitor 3, a new version of its tool for automatically checking the status of RAID storage system. The completely rewritten software ...

Irvine-based Broadcom (www.broadcom.com) has shipped an enhanced version of the company's XelCore RAID Software. The company's RAID software stack is used to create multiple mirrors of data, and is ...