Mar 26 2008
The ‘R’ in RAID stands for what?
Hint: R does not stand for Re-build or Re-initialize, or even Re-Format or Re-arrange.
All joking aside, most people in the IT field understand what a RAID array is and how it can help protect your data if used correctly, but many people do not understand what to do in the event of a system or drive failure.
First of all, let’s start at the beginning for the non-techie folk out there who just bought a Dell XPS system with a 2TB RAID 0 array simply because they heard it was fast and redundant. Most of these people might not have any idea they have an array, they just got it because it was a lot of storage. Anyways, RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. It is a hardware or software based system that uses 2 or more hard disk drives that work together to achieve one of three things: Continue Reading »