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Hardware VS Software RAID: How Do They Compare?

Setting up a RAID configuration is a helpful way to maximize storage capacity, amplify performance and reduce risks of data loss. RAID-based storage solutions use all the best parts of a group of hard drives to create an efficient, reliable data storage unit. RAIDs come in many shapes and sizes—each…

Save Your Water-Damaged MacBook Pro

The day started like any other day. You hit the alarm. Took a shower. Grabbed a hot cup of coffee, then opened your MacBook and settled in to start working. But this day was going to turn out very different. Because on this day, you water-damaged your MacBook Pro. Sure,…

What are the RAID 5 Requirements?

What do you do if you’re a small to medium-sized business—or even a freelancer or consultant— who can’t afford the capital investment to buy high-capacity servers? You still need your drives to deliver fast read and write speeds with ample storage space, but the cost is so prohibitive! Depending on…

How to Check Which Hard Drive You Have

As of February 2019, nearly three-quarters (74%) of Americans owned a laptop or desktop computer. This is a staggering number of users, but probably very few of us can accurately answer the question, “What kind of hard drive do I have?” Many computer owners are more concerned about download speeds,…

Hard Drive Not Being Detected? What To Do.

Hard drives are an essential component of modern computing. Without a hard drive, your device will be hard-pressed to complete any commands, let alone support or save your important information. But sometimes, this hardware doesn’t operate as designed and computers may return an error like, “hard drive not being detected.”…

How to Connect & Use External Hard Drive

Have you ever grown out of a house? Maybe you moved into your first apartment when you were single, long before the pets, spouse or kids came into your life. But as those individuals and everything they bring with them slowly took over your space, your once spacious pad started…

Partition External Hard Drives: A Guide to How & Why

Ever look down when you’re riding in an airplane and notice how land is divided? You have no idea whose properties you’re looking at, how much they own or what they do with their land. But you can clearly see where one field ends and another begins. You can pick…

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