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 ...

The 180TB storage array, like many of our other hard drive-related stories, comes from our friends at Backblaze. Backblaze is a cloud-based backup company that provides unlimited storage for a fixed ...

I've used one Drobo or another since the first device came out in 2007. I bought the very first generation Drobo. It was slow, but I found the ease of use and reliability a big win. When the much ...

With two tool-less/adapter-less 3.5-inch drive bays, this is one of the easiest external RAID boxes we’ve tested. RAID 1, RAID 0, spanning and non-RAID (dual drive letters) modes are supported, and ...

My current NAS setup in the QNAP is a RAID1 setup of 2x 4TB drives and a RAID1 setup of 2x 8TB drives. I thought I could effectively reproduce the dual RAID1 configuration, but I'm learning that you ...

Using an external hard drive is a great way to back up what’s most important to you while retaining full access to your data. They're a good way to augment your existinginternal drive storage, and ...

An external hard drive is a great way to add massive storage to any system. The humble hard drive has been at the heart of modern PCs for decades, and though SSDs have taken the performance crown, ...