what is RAID?

[EmperorNero]

thanks.

 

[office boy]

Try searching thanks 🙂

Here's a great read from Ars Technica
The skinny on RAID

 

[toph99]

RAID: Redundant Array of Independant Disks

it's when you have multiple hard drives acting as one/mirroring(backing up) one another. i used to have a link to a great article describing it but i seemed to have misplaced it...

 

[pdo]

RAID is a spray that kills bug and roach in your house!!

 

[Budman]

.paldo .

🙂 🙂 🙂

Raid Kills bugs dead,maybe Microsoft should start using it.😉

 

[Lord Evermore]

...but then what would Mrs. Gates and little Billy Jr. do?

 

[EmperorNero]

and what is software RAID?

 

[thorin]

RAID = Redundant Array of Independant (or Inexpensive) Disks.

? Lvl 0: Provides data striping (spreading files out across multiple disks) but without any redundancy. This improves performance but does not deliver any fault tolerance.

? Lvl 1: Provides disk mirroring, where data is written to multiple disks, thus if one disk fails the system can instantly switch.

? Lvl 3: Same as Level 0, also uses one dedicated disk for error correction data. It provides good performance and a low level of fault tolerance

? Lvl 5: Provides data striping at the byte level and stripe error correction information. This provides excellent performance and high fault tolerance.

Thorin

 

[Akaz1976]

Where can i get all the basics (very basics)? Can i use it on CUSL2? Whats the performance boost? what are the hardware requirments? any OS restrictions? How does it work?

thanx for help! 🙂

Akaz