what the hell is RAid

[diesel2005]

i here people going on about this what is it sorry to sound nooby but i am

 

[TheHeadFL]

redundant array of inexpensive disks

Just a way to combine multiple physical disks into one logical disk as seen by the operating system. This can (but not always) include fault tolerance to provide error checking and repairing.

 

[nuke]

this site will help you.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

 

[m3trj]

Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independant Discs. It is where you can connect two or more hard drives in RAID 0, for double the space, or RAID 1, for mirroring, for example.

http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html

 

[diesel2005]

thanks i ahev one hd so i wont need to do thsi ryt

 

[sumukh]

Here is one detailed article on Raid drive.

http://www.cheapest-computer-hardware-software.com/raid-0-data-recovery.html

Regards

Sumukh

 

[Ankush09]

No you wouldnt.

 

[HAVOC]

THere is an excellent feature in this forum. It's called a search. Try it.

 

[ThE_MarD]

Heyyo,

Hehe, yes utfs.

Anywho, raid 0 rocks, and so does raid 5. I say if you have 2 sata hd's do raid, it'll be much healthier for your computer, especially if you have 3 sata hd's and can pull off raid 5.

 

[Chankama]

Extremely comprehensive (at the popular science level) description of RAID.. You won't ask another question re: RAID again .. Not that long either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_array_of_independent_disks