What is raid?

ArcAneTSGK · 8 Feb 2008 at 22:07

So i have seen a lot of people on these forums talk about RAID 0 and RAID 1 or something like that. And i was wondering if anyone could just outline what it is for/what it does etc.

Thanks.

oldbag · 8 Feb 2008 at 22:12

http://www.sohoconsult.ch/raid/raid.html - because I am too drunk to explain.

yantorsen · 8 Feb 2008 at 22:21

it stands for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks

RAID 0 is where you have two drives working togethor as one big drive, but with two "inputs/outputs" so it's quicker basically. The data is spread out over two drives. Hard to explain.

RAID 1 is where you have two drives, and the one drive automatically backs up the other drive.

jbloggs · 10 Feb 2008 at 16:06

See Here

jak731 · 10 Feb 2008 at 17:30

If you have 2 discs in RAID 0 can you still use partitions?

rpstewart · 11 Feb 2008 at 08:19

jak731 said:
If you have 2 discs in RAID 0 can you still use partitions?

Yes, the array is created at the hardware level so appears to the OS as a single physical drive which can be partitioned etc just like any other HDD.

neil_g · 11 Feb 2008 at 09:02

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID