Digital Data Storage 4

Digital Data Storage 4

Digital Data Storage 4

RAID or 'Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks", was designed to increase the reliability of data storage, improve the volume size, or enhance the performance of the disks. They are most commonly employed for use as a server, but can be used solely as data security device.

There are many types of RAID arrays, but the most commonly employed is the Raid 5. Made of a minimum of 3 hard drives and as many as 16, the RAID 5 is designed to work and maintain data stability even if one of the hard drives fails physically or logically. If only one of the drives fail, any competent technician can simply swap out the damaged drive and run a re-build in RAID BIOS utilities which will restore the RAID 5 to its former functioning glory. However, as most users know, computers rarely make life as simple as that. Apart from the RAID 5 the other types of RAID are: