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Showing posts with label physical drive. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 March 2012

RAID


  • Redundant Array of Independent Disks

  • Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks

  • 6 levels in common use

  • Not a hierarchy

  • Set of physical disks viewed as single logical drive by O/S

  • Data distributed across physical drives

  • Can use redundant capacity to store parity information


RAID 0



  • No redundancy

  • Data striped across all disks