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 ...

I've currently got a 1.5 TB RAID 5 array (4x500GB Western Digital RE2), as well as a 1 TB and a 1.5 TB not in RAID, with my OS on an SSD. I believe the 1 TB is dying after years of heavy use, so I ...

Reader Liam Yates finds himself with two spare hard drives and one question. He writes: Over the years I’ve collected a couple of USB external hard drives that I’m not using. I wondered if I could ...