| Taurus RAID Setup |
| The Taurus comes with the option to setup your drives and combine them as one single drive or as two individual drives. To increase performance and data throughput, the "RAID 0 - Striping" setup will be ideal for your daily backup and other data transfers. For important data and reliability, the "RAID 1 - Mirroring" setup will be the best solution, automatically creating a copy of all the data in case one of the drive fails. |
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Non-RAID
The drives will show up as two independent drives. Use this if you have only installed one drive or two different drives (not the same capacity and brand). |
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RAID 0 - Spanning *
The two drives show up as one large single drive. Spanning is an array (not RAID) that is written sequentially across the two drives. By itself, it does not provide any performance or redundancy benefits. |
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RAID 0 - Striping *
Used where speed is the primary objective, RAID Level 0 (also called "striping") is not redundant. This form of array splits each piece of data across both of the drives in segments; since data is written without any form of parity data-checking, it allows for the fastest data transfer of all other RAID levels. However, if one drive becomes damaged, the whole array can become corrupted. |
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RAID 1 - Mirroring *
This mode requires 2 identical drives to implement. A RAID 1 creates an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data on the second drive. This is useful when reliability and backup are more important than data capacity. The available capacity to the user will only be as large as a single drive but when one of the hard drives fails, it can be replaced and the data rebuilt automatically. |
| Remarks |
* For RAID 0 & 1, two hard hard drives of identical capacity and make are required! |
