Peter.Cort
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i have drives to build my e-peen.
and they look smexy.
and its cool.
and they look smexy.
and its cool.
lawl.
um raid is just like setting up a few drives to do different things. there are 4 main types of raid that you'd see as an end user.
raid 0- Stripe: makes for faster read times as the data is shared over the 2 drives.
raid 1- Mirror: drive one holds data, drive 2 is a direct clone of drive 1. drive one dies, drive 2 kicks in, saves your ***.
raid 5- Stripe with Parody: usually 5+ drives (3 at least) drives A, B, C, basically one drive is data, one drive is a mirror of the data drive and there's a third for extra backup
raid 10- Strip + Mirror: 4+ drives (in sets of 2) raid 0 plus a backup of each drive for mirroring.