RAID. what does it mean?

[toph99]

i know very little about RAID setups and such, can someone please explain what it means and what it does? thanx =)

 

[Pariah]

There are 43253425090897 posts on this board covering this exact topic. Do a search and you'll be reading for a week.

 

[JackMDS]

This is about hacking the Promise card, but there is a nice explanation of RAID possibilities.

http://www.thetechzone.com/reviews/controllers/promise/hacked_ultra66/page2.shtml

 

[Howard]

RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Dumbasses.

No, really RAID is short for Redundant Array of Independant Disks.

 

[AMB]

"Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks
<storage, architecture> (RAID. Originally &quot;Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks&quot A project at the computer science department of the University of California at Berkeley, under the direction of Professor Katz, in conjunction with Professor John Ousterhout and Professor David Patterson.

The project is reaching its culmination with the implementation of a prototype disk array file server with a capacity of 40 GBytes and a sustained bandwidth of 80 MBytes/second. The server is being interfaced to a 1 Gb/s local area network. A new initiative, which is part of the Sequoia 2000 Project, seeks to construct a geographically distributed storage system spanning disk arrays and automated libraries of optical disks and tapes. The project will extend the interleaved storage techniques so successfully applied to disks to tertiary storage devices. A key element of the research will be to develop techniques for managing latency in the I/O and network paths.

The original (&quot;..Inexpensive..&quot term referred to the 3.5 and 5.25 inch disks used for the first RAID system but no longer applies.

The following standard RAID specifications exist:


RAID 0 Non-redundant striped array
RAID 1 Mirrored arrays
RAID 2 Parallel array with ECC
RAID 3 Parallel array with parity
RAID 4 Striped array with parity
RAID 5 Striped array with rotating parity


ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/techreports/berkeley.edu/raid/raidPapers. http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/projects/parallel/research_summaries/14-Computer-Architecture&quot;

Taken from: http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/

 

[Howard]

my god

 

[AMB]

What?

I don't even understand it though

 

[toph99]

thanx

 

[Mday]

http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/topics/vectors_1999-raid.htm

i'd read this...