2007-02-11 19:09:11 · 2 answers · asked by Joe 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
RAID (originally redundant array of inexpensive disks, also known as redundant array of independent disks) refers to a data storage scheme using multiple hard drives to share or replicate data among the drives. Depending on the configuration of the RAID (typically referred to as the RAID level), the benefit of RAID is to increase data integrity, fault-tolerance, throughput or capacity, compared with single drives. In its original implementations, its key advantage was the ability to combine multiple low-cost devices using older technology into an array that offered greater capacity, reliability, speed, or a combination of these things, than was affordably available in a single device using the newest technology.
2007-02-11 19:14:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A very interesting subject and often used in data-centers lately by storage systems where high performance and high availability is required:
The basic idea of RAID was to combine multiple small, inexpensive disk drives into an array of disk drives which yields performance exceeding that of a Single Large Expensive Drive (SLED)
2007-02-12 03:18:08 · answer #2 · answered by John Th 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋