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2.5" Drives On the Desktop
An anonymous reader points out an article on XYZ Computing exploring the use of a 2.5" notebook hard drive in a desktop computer. From the article: "The tradeoff for these qualities has always been limited capacities, high costs, and slow transfer rates, but a the recent progression in portable storage techology has changed the 2.5" drive greatly. We put the Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB SATA notebook drive in our test system and took it for a spin."
I know what RAID is, FFS. I just didn't know what the 'S' was supposed to stand for. Can people please not make up their own acronyms or use vendors stupid marketing acronyms? Just stick with the ones that people can be expected to know. Because if we don't know what an acronym means, then it's useless and we have to go through this whole process of asking what an acronym stands for. Acronyms are supposed to save time. Thank you.
A quick Google search for "SRAID" shows only 1 out of the top 10 are related to computers and RAID. The other 9 appear to be some word in gaelic. The second page is worse. It also appears to stand for "SRA (Shop Replaceable) Assembly Isolation Diagnostic".
However, a Google search for "software RAID" shows almost 10 times as many results, the first several pages of which appear to be entirely about computers and RAID. There's a bunch of howto's as well as ads for RAID gear.
So it looks like "SRAID" is not a widely used acronym. Or if it is, people aren't using it on web pages, which would be odd for a computer-related term. I suggest you use "software RAID" in the future, to be clear about what you're talking about.