How To Turn Your Old Hard Drives Into A RAID Array

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Your old hard drives still have some live left in them.

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Cloud storage is everywhere. Despite the ongoing memory crisis, SSDs have gotten cheap enough that most new PCs don't even bother with a spinning drive anymore. And yet, if you build your own computers, there's a good chance you've got a drawer of old 500GB and 1TB hard drives that are too small to be useful on their own but still coule have some life left in them. RAID is what you do with that drawer. Rather than throwing these hard drives away, RAID can give them a new purpose. Plus, it gives you faster and more reliable storage.

What is a RAID array?

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RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. The idea here is to combine multiple disks so they function as a single...

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