Numerous people have reported problems with their RAID setup on the Tom’s Hardware forums (in the Storage section), sharing difficulties in set up or management. It’s a pity that, for most people, a RAID is an unnecessary exercise.
RAID—a Redundant Array of Independent Disks—is basically bunching a group of disks together, telling your computer to consider the group as one drive. There are numerous kinds of RAID setups, but the most popular ones either provide an instantaneous back-up for your data, storing the same information on two or more disks, or boost your computer’s ability to read and write data, by …read more

What happens when you combine 16 64GB Intel X25-E SSDs into a RAID array managed by two Adaptec 5805 controller cards? Why, a storage setup that can write and read at sustained speeds of 2.23 GB/s. Yes, two point two-three gigabytes a second. With a total capacity of around a terabyte, you’re talking about being able to delete all data stored in less than 8 minutes.
The financially frivolous exercise (see prices below) was Tom’s Hardware US’s response to an email by Samsung’s PR agency, which apparently showcased a RAID array of 24 Samsung PB22-J flash SSDs achieving 2.12GB/s. Looks like …read more

To recap, RAID is basically a way of linking drives together, either to improve the disk read/write speed of a computer, provide a data backup that immediately kicks in upon failure, or a combination of both. And yes, most RAID setups involve the use of hard drives, with some enthusiasts opting to use solid-state drives.
But Daniel Blade Olson is on the fringe, creating his own RAID array on Mac OS X with five 3.5″ flopppy disk drives, five floppy disks, one generic USB hub, and one 1995 iMac G3. Obviously a useless achievement, since the total available space provided by …read more