Unlike a drive or two inside your desktop or laptop PC, a RAID consists of two or more drives combined to create storage ...

For example, I only wrote a total of 7874GB and ... we get all put into a bigger perspective. A RAID 0 setup does boost the performance in most areas, but not to double as you might expect.

In our example, we booted from a live Ubuntu 14.04 ... In the next field, use the up and down arrow keys to select the RAID level labeled RAID 0 (Stripe) and hit Enter again.

Yet, RAID 5 can’t survive a simultaneous failure of two drives, which does not provide a sufficient reliability guarantee for arrays using large media, for example. RAID 6, aka dual parity ...

Having your drives set up in a RAID does have a few disadvantages, at least when running Windows. For example, we don’t have direct access to the S.M.A.R.T. information of the individual drives ...