basically a system for disk management.
the most commonly used RAIDs are RAID 0 (/shudder) and RAID 1
RAID 0 combines multiple drives into 1. the user gets increased speed and a larger hard drive (ie: he can have one 100 GB C drive, rather than having two 50 GB drives as C and D). the big problem with this (and why I hate it so much) is that if 1 drive fails, the content on both drives is gone.
RAID 1 mirrors the drives. the benefit from this is data security. if one of the hard drive fails, all your content is still on the second drive. the drawback, of course, is price, as you have to buy two hard drives and only get the storage capabilities of one.
other big RAIDs are RAID 5, RAID 1+0 (my favorite. hehe), and RAID 5+0.
I've only seen RAID 50 once, and that was when I was setting up a client cluster worth more than I make in 2 years. lol.
Discussion Zen 5 Speculation (EPYC Turin and Strix Point/Granite Ridge - Ryzen 9000)
Facebook
Twitter