RAID ?????

[diehrd]

Hi I have the MsI K7T-TURBO-R

It has the raid set up on it ,Which I feel i have no real use for because I am not familiar with it,

Any body that can simply explain raid to me thanks.

[hommie]

raid=Redundant arrays of inexpensive disks

[Rocky55]

e-mail me again if you have anymore questions


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raid is fast!!!!...

[Jez33]

0h my god, hommie answered a question!
good 1 hommie

[Ammethyl]

It's true that RAID stands for Rundundant Array of Innexpensive Disk. This fonctionnality enables you to Plug many (innexpensive?) hardisks and trick your computer in "believing" it's only one big disk. Raid 0 is: Two 20 GB disks equals One 40GB disk; RAID 1 is Two 20GB equals one "extremely reliable" 20 GB disk (more efficient and crash "proof"). You can sometimes use RAID 0+1, which is both at the same time (need at least 4 disks) this one's for rich people...

Hope that helps

[Tachyon]

diehrd (Feb 28, 2001 09:37 p.m.):
Hi I have the MsI K7T-TURBO-R

It has the raid set up on it ,Which I feel i have no real use for because I am not familiar with it,

Any body that can simply explain raid to me thanks.

RAID=Redundant Array of INDEPENDENT Disks.

There are different types of RAID configurations, but the most widely used is RAID 0. With a RAID 0 configuration you have multiple disks that function as one disk (eg. 2 20GB = ~1 40GB RAID). The speed increase is due to data being written to all drives on the array simultaneously.

Although there may be modest performance increases in day to day use, RAID really shines when doing large "bursty" data transfers, not sustained transfers (such as writing a Photoshop file).

I hope this helps. :)

[Tachyon]

Ammethyl (Mar 01, 2001 09:35 p.m.):
It's true that RAID stands for Rundundant Array of Innexpensive Disk. This fonctionnality enables you to Plug many (innexpensive?) hardisks and trick your computer in "believing" it's only one big disk. Raid 0 is: Two 20 GB disks equals One 40GB disk; RAID 1 is Two 20GB equals one "extremely reliable" 20 GB disk (more efficient and crash "proof"). You can sometimes use RAID 0+1, which is both at the same time (need at least 4 disks) this one's for rich people...

Hope that helps

RAID 0 is "striping". RAID 1 is "mirroring" RAID 0+1 does both.