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RAID drives

THE SYSTEM called RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) offers a way to keep your data safe through combining multiple drives. Although RAID isn’t intended to be a backup solution in itself, keeping multiple copies of your data across various hard drives means your information is safe if any one drive fails.

In this section, we’ll explore the various types of RAID setup, as well as how to use macOS’s Disk Utility to set up a RAID array of your own using

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