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  RAID, What is RAID, What does RAID Mean


RAID - Redundant Array of Independant Disks

RAID refers to a hard disk technology which can be used to speed up data transfer and/or provide disk redundancy through disk system fault tolerance.

RAID provides these features by utilising more than one hard disk at a time, there are several variations of a RAID configuration referred to as levels.

Each of these levels provide different performance and/or fault tolerance benefits.

RAID configurations are commonly found in data critical applications.

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