Learn the characteristics of RAID 10 and RAID 50, and which RAID level is appropriate for your app. I/O and protection needs contribute to your RAID choice.

One of the major changes was that Apple removed any ability to set up and configure a redundant array of independent disks (RAID). You had to turn to a third-party app to do so.

Its very risky to use disks that large in a raid 5. Ideally, those should be setup in a raid 6.

So I would still have 6 drives, but now I can use one SCSI channel for each RAID-5 array. If this is preferrable, I will have to put the OS/SQL/ERP onto one of the arrays.

In 2007 I predicted that RAID 5 would cease to work to prevent data loss. And yet, as 2017 dawns, many people are using RAID 5 successfully. No, I wasn't wrong. Here's what changed - and how to ...

The most common way to set up multiple storage drives is to configure a RAID array. Using RAID to combine multiple drives into a larger virtual drive will generally keep systems up and running ...