RAID requires additional drives and costs but isn't a substitute for backups. A redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) has been around for decades where multiple drives can be bundled into a ...

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 ...

Western Digital’s latest 26TB WD Red Pro drive is engineered to work reliably in multi-bay storage systems. It uses an 11-platter, helium-sealed design running at 7200 RPM along with a ...