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Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks.

A funny pic that describes RAID…”The phrase “RAID” is an umbrella term for computer data storage schemes that can divide and replicate data among multiple hard disk drives. RAID’s various designs all involve two key design goals: increased data reliability and increased input/output performance. When several physical disks are set up to use RAID technology, they are said to be in a RAID array. This array distributes data across several disks, but the array is seen by the computer user and operating system as just one, single disk”