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Archive of entries posted on February 2008

RAID Explained

Introduction Modern hard disks come in sizes as large as 1tb (Terra-Byte = 1000GB)and beyond. However, sometimes even the largest or fastest hard disks are not enough for certain applications. The acronym ‘RAID’ stands for Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks. It is generally recommended that all disks in a RAID should be identical [...]