An Introduction To Raid Greater Reliability ,faster, Less Costly Hard Drive Units
What is a raid setup on a computer system?
Like anything else it depends who you talk to.
Raid hard drive systems had their acronym explained as Redundant Array of Individual Drives and Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives. The acronym for this is the shortened term RAID.
Capacity, reliability and performance are all important for file servers or other computer systems when you are storing large or very important files.
It is often said that It is not if you hard drive will fail. It is at what point in time your hard drive will fail.
Of course if your hard drives fail even if you have backup the last bit of data which was being written onto the hard drive when the failure occurred will be lost.
You can get much greater capacities, avoid losing data from disk failure, and do all this with the RAID (the acronym for the system).
RAID can now be done with standard commercially available hard drives so the cost is now within your price range for all the benefits and peace of mind RAID will give you.
RAID can be simply explained as...