what is raid?

there are different types of RAID
The most common are 0, 1, 5, and 0+1 (10)
RAID 0 Splits data 2 (or more) ways to a number of identical disks for a huge increase in performance. If one disk fails, the whole array fails and data is unretrieveable
RAID 1 Copys the data to two disks, basically backup without you ever thinking about it, if one drive fails you've got the other disk with the same data on it.
Im not sure about RAID 5 lol google it
And RAID 10 is basically 1 + 0, an array of disks with another array of disks backing them up.

Hope that helped, best to check google or wikipedia.
 
well RAID 0 is performace boost
RAID 1 is for backup

Your mainboard will probably have a RAID controller you just need a couple of good disks.

An example yould be 2 x 250GB drives for your OS in RAID 1
And 2 x 1TB drives in RAID 1 for storage with the other drive for backup.
 
tbh im not bothered about backp. ive never had a HDD fail on me and i have nothing more valuble than a few game saves on i anyway. but raid 0 sounds good.
 
Raid 5 is striping with parity, you lose the capacity of 1 disc in the array as parity is spread between each drive, for example, in this machine I have 5*250gb drives but lose 250gb actual capacity due to the parity information.
 
I found it interesting that raid stands for redundant array of inexpensive disks, and jbod stands for just a bunch of disks. :D

I've never heard anyone saying they are running a jbod setup. :D
 
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Benefit of jbod is you can combine lots of (for example) old disks you have lying around and it combines them into one larger HDD, kindof the opposite of partitioning a drive. I'm not sure how the data is distributed across the disks, whether it's striped or just written sequentially. RAID 0 does a similar thing (though striped) with the difference that you have number of drives x size of smallest drive's worth of disk space. JBOD is much more flexible.
 
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