by Reader Liam Yates finds himself with two spare hard drives and one question. He writes:
Over the years I’ve collected a couple of USB external hard drives that I’m not using. I wondered if I could combine them in some way so I could use them as a single volume with my Mac.
Could you? Probably. Should you? Nah.
Addressing the Could side of the equation, yes, under ideal circumstances you could launch Disk Utility (found in /Applications/Utilities), click on the RAID tab, drag the two drives into the drive area, choose one of three formatting flavors—Mirrored RAID Set, Striped RAID Set, or Concatenated Disk Set—and click Create. The drives would be erased and the formatting applied.
Disk Utility is the means for creating RAID sets.
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