Several months ago one of the hard drives went bad, the drive had slowed the computer server way down.  We did a hot swap with a new hard drive, ran a system command that re-populated the drive back into the raid. I was very lucky that there was no data lost, very lucky.

In computing, specifically computer data storage, a Redundant Array of Independent Drives (or Disks), also known as Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives (or Disks), we techies just call it (RAID) for short.  The term RAID is an umbrella keyword for computer data storage schemes that divide and/or replicate data among multiple hard drives. RAID can be designed to provide increased data reliability and/or increased I/O (input/output) performance. The only way to go for mass storage.

 
RAID combines several physical hard disks into a single logical unit, either using a special hardware or software. Hardware solutions are designed to present themselves to the attached system as a single hard drive, and the operating system is unaware of the technical workings.  Software solutions are typically implemented in the operating system, and again would present the RAID drive as a single drive to applications. I like using the hard ware version.

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