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Basics of RAID

Posted by Zonk on from the brush-up-on-the-essentials dept.

Doggie Fizzle writes "RAID has been common in business environments for ages, and is now becoming more viable and popular for personal computers. This article focuses on the the basics of RAID, and spells things out for beginners or tech veterans. From the article: 'The benefits of RAID over a single drive system far outweigh the extra consideration required during installation. Losing data once due to hard drive failure may be all that is required to convince anyone that RAID is right for them, but why wait until that happens.'"

3 of 242 comments (clear)

  1. Excellent RAID reference by Logic+Bomb · · Score: 4, Informative

    There's an excellent guide to RAID levels (with pretty diagrams and such) at http://www.acnc.com/raid.html

  2. Re:Holy Ads, bat-man! by Threni · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looks ok to me - not a single one. Want my AdBlock list?

  3. There's a lack of real information about RAID by mollog · · Score: 4, Informative

    I worked for years in development of RAID solutions for a major manufacturer. One of the problems with selling RAID solutions is the lack of understanding, or the prejudice and bias of the people who were supposed to be specifying and buying the hardware.
    The 'tutorial' of the parent article is talking in kindergarden terms, oversimplifications and obsolete term, and overlooking some of the issues with using RAID. It's a good example of the true lack of understanding about the subject. By now, there are so many types of solutions that the term RAID hardly applies. But, even 10 years ago companies like Compaq had innovative rudundant storage solutions that were enterprise ready.

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