Basics of RAID

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 22, 2005 @11:38AM 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.'"

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Still a single point of failure by L-Train8 · 2005-07-22 11:47 · Score: 5, Interesting

With RAID, you still have a single point of failure. Instead of it being your hard drive, it is now your RAID controller. So what is the advantage?

Since a RAID controller doesn't have moving parts, is it less likely than a hard drive to fail?

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