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What is Raid?

Google does help :)

search "what is raid?" you can even hit the I'm feeling lucky button because the first link answers the question
 
Simply put, RAID is used to distribute your data onto 2 or more hard drive disks to increase data availability (except when using RAID 0), while increasing read and write speeds (except when using RAID 1).
 
i dont know what it is either, but from checking out google, i can basically see that this doesnt apply if you only have one hard drive, right? ...or should you have more than one to use it?
 
monster.under.thebed said:
but would just having one and no raid be fine anyways?
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Yes it would. Raid is just an option if you have two or more of the same drive.
 
monster.under.thebed said:
what kind of SATA would be good for a mobo these days?

and... does "2 x SATA 150" mean that it can support 2 SATA hard drives?
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Correct. On motherboards, 99% of the time, it is 1 port per drive.
 
cooter said:
Redundant Array of Independant Drives
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Um, how about...

Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. :rolleyes:

Um, how about both, depending on who you ask? I really don't want to see an argument break out over such a trivial matter. - DL
 
Seriously, it's known under both names

Inexpensive
Independent
Either/or

The second document alludes to the original acronym including inexpensive and it later being changed to independent. However, what you think the I stands for has absolutely no effect on its function ;)
 
We have yet to hear back from OP on what he thinks about this all.

Honestly, if someone doesn't know what RAID is and can't use basic tools to discover what it is by themselves they should probably leave it alone. RAID deals with data storage, and we all know how mad we would be if our data got wiped out because we didn't know what we were doing.

I'm not trying to flame anyone here. Think of it like when your mom told you not to play with the knobs on the oven. ;)

On the other hand, helping other forum members is a very nice thing to do no matter how noob the question. :D
 
^^ Quite correct. RAID is oversimplified in many reviews/how-to articles. Many articles that talk about how great of a job RAID-1 does at protecting data don't address additional driver complexity, the single point of failure in the file system, and the continued need for backups, even with fault tolerant RAID. We won't even start on the stuff out there that is simply not true about RAID-0 ;)

It pays to know all the ins and outs of RAID before implementing it.
 
vmerc said:
We have yet to hear back from OP on what he thinks about this all.

Honestly, if someone doesn't know what RAID is and can't use basic tools to discover what it is by themselves they should probably leave it alone. RAID deals with data storage, and we all know how mad we would be if our data got wiped out because we didn't know what we were doing.

I'm not trying to flame anyone here. Think of it like when your mom told you not to play with the knobs on the oven. ;)

On the other hand, helping other forum members is a very nice thing to do no matter how noob the question. :D
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Gotta admit though vmerc, I bet we all have learned at least a little of our knowledge by playing with technology, breaking our system (and possibly our hand on the keyboard after breaking said system), analyzing what we did and starting over.

And I agree helping is nice. Sorry Doug, I wasn't trying to start an arguement up there. Just being a smartalek...it's a slow day at work today...and I am pissed off at my Astros.
 
Believe it or not, that's how I learned what I know - the hard way. If I could have back all of the corrupted files and all the time I lost fiddling with this crap, I might actually have a life :D However, this doesn't mean you should learn the hard way on just anything. I really don't think you want to learn how RAID works by using vital business records as your test sample ;)
 
maytheus said:
Gotta admit though vmerc, I bet we all have learned at least a little of our knowledge by playing with technology, breaking our system (and possibly our hand on the keyboard after breaking said system), analyzing what we did and starting over.

And I agree helping is nice. Sorry Doug, I wasn't trying to start an arguement up there. Just being a smartalek...it's a slow day at work today...and I am pissed off at my Astros.
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Hahaha! when I was in middle school my dad put some software on the computer to keep me from messing around with anything that wasn't in the "Menu" that he allowed me to have. It was a bonified security program that he put on the computer because I had broken it so many times. I circumvented that in about a week, and went back to causing mayhem. I think it was like an emancipation for him when I got my own computer.

Edit: Oh this was before internet mind you. Before Windows 3.0.
 
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