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RAID illustrated

Published on May 9, 2008 at 10:15 am by iWeb-Olivier in: Web Hosting

For many people, RAID is an obscure concept. Fortunatly, somebody with to much time on their hands (not on company time, we hope) decided to shine some light on the confusing world of RAID with? bottles of water :

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We’ll give them an ‘A’ for effort…

In fact, RAID means “Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks” and “is a technology that employs the simultaneous use of two or more hard disk drives to achieve greater levels of performance, reliability, and/or larger data volume sizes.” More details can be found on Wikipedia.

RAID controllers are available on all of iWeb?s dedicated servers and, among other things, can be used to run a backup server.

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3 comments tags: load-balancing, RAID  | 

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1. Ricardo Auad
   May 9th, 2008 10:35 am

   Excelent job !

   I hope I’ll have some spare time and do more experiments too. ;)

   Regards
   –
   Ricardo Auada

2. zdenek
   May 9th, 2008 1:48 pm

   I = inexpensive. The word “independent” was entered later only as a marketing move – it made it easier to explain why RAID with 15KRPM scsi was so expensive.

3. adad
   June 26th, 2008 5:12 am

   nice method to teach.
   thnx

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