SSDs don't need RAID due to longer lifespan and faster performance. RAID reduces storage capacity, especially with RAID 1 mirroring. RAID requires additional drives and costs but isn't a ...

Engineeres had two 200-Gbyte Deskstar 7K200 laptop hard disk drives from Hitachi ... powered on to finish setting up the RAID array. Cost of the disk drives: $249 each, $498 total.

[Action Retro] has a great video showing just such an escapade, the creation of a large RAID 0 array using a pile of USB floppy drives. Yes, taking one of the smallest and most unreliable pieces ...

Parity computations are used in RAID drive arrays for fault tolerance by calculating the data in two drives and storing the results on a third. The parity is computed by XOR'ing a bit from drive 1 ...

The 2.3.0 version lets users expand an existing array by adding additional drives, and ZFS's built-in deduplication feature ...