RAID In computing, a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (more commonly known as a RAIN array) is a system of using multiple hard drives is a system for sharing or replicating data among the drives The basic idea behind RAID is to combine multiple small, inexpensive disk drives into an array to accomplish performance or redundancy goals not attainable with one large and expensive drive. The underlying concept of RAID is that data may be …showed first 75 words of 2909 total…

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