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RAID Boxes
Tatsujin:
I don't understand them as much, the benefits and the disadvantages (if there is any). Also setting them up, is it friendly to set up (plug and play like putting an external HDD?) or is it complicated?
Here's a picture I found:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannychoo/3464325315/sizes/o/
BuriaL:
The advantages with raid is that you ether can "double youre data" and if something goes wrong and a disk is fucked, you wont loose data.
Or you can make several disks into "one" and theyll work faster than normal.
External raid is prolly just for massive storage?
Edit: Oh its you, i guess you know it allready, dont you.
Tatsujin:
--- Quote from: BuriaL on August 02, 2009, 05:42:26 PM ---The advantages with raid is that you ether can "double youre data" and if something goes wrong and a disk is fucked, you wont loose data.
Or you can make several disks into "one" and theyll work faster than normal.
External raid is prolly just for massive storage?
Edit: Oh its you, i guess you know it allready, dont you.
--- End quote ---
You mean like 1TB HDD would become 2TB? And in other words, you can combine those hard drives into one, or something?
bobjoe:
--- Quote from: Tatsujin on August 02, 2009, 05:45:16 PM ---
--- Quote from: BuriaL on August 02, 2009, 05:42:26 PM ---The advantages with raid is that you ether can "double youre data" and if something goes wrong and a disk is fucked, you wont loose data.
Or you can make several disks into "one" and theyll work faster than normal.
External raid is prolly just for massive storage?
Edit: Oh its you, i guess you know it allready, dont you.
--- End quote ---
You mean like 1TB HDD would become 2TB? And in other words, you can combine those hard drives into one, or something?
--- End quote ---
No, a 1TB HDD would become ~500 GB.
It's just writing the data to to places instead of one so that you won't lose it.
And yes, the other kind of raid would combine two drives into one so that you can access it more quickly, easily, whatever.
a10112:
as per an explanation of the picture you linked: it's a "box" with "cartridges" that may be filled with HDDs and removed as such (given that the bays are hot swappable) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_swapping
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