I tried an Areca ARC-1210 RAID card a while ago (or at least plugged it in but did not set up a real array) and was very disappointed at how much time and noise (read: friggin loud beep) it added to ...

It's not hardware RAID. The RAID is handled by the BIOS (firmware, still running on your CPU) until Windows starts to boot, at which point Intel's driver (Matrix Storage Manager, i.e. software) takes ...

Businesses that don't utilize cloud storage to back up their data -- and perhaps even those that do -- should consider making use of a redundant array of independent disks or RAID configuration to ...