Hi! Adrian Hall wrote: > RAID is a method of spreading your data across disks.It can vary > from simply treating all of your disks as one large disk (and > providing no redundancy for your data) to what's known as striping > where your data is written to multiple disks in a way that means if > one of the disks fails, the system can still reconstruct your data > from the remaining disks. No, striping only doesn't provide redundany. Redundancy is achieved by additionally storing parity data, which is done in e.g. RAID level 5. Telly: The Wikipedia article about RAID is pretty good and comprehensible I think. Regards, Tobias
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