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Multiple hard drives working together: All about RAID setups |
February 15, 2013
Stevey, admitted confused by the benefits of RAIDs, asked the Answer Line forum to explain these hard drive groups.
A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) puts multiple hard drives together to improve on what a single drive can do on its own. Depending on how you configure a RAID, it can increase your computer's speed while giving you a single "drive" that can hold as much as all of the drives combined. Or you can use a RAID to increase reliability, so that your computer will keep working after a hard drive crash. Some RAIDS allow you to do both.
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Here are three of the most popular RAID configurations:
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