What is RAID? All the common RAID levels explained easily by an idiot

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RAID is a thing that is becoming more and more common in the digital storage industry. As more and more of our lives is being reduced to bits and bytes of data, the risk and loss that comes from losing it increases too! Of course you should always backup, back up, BACKUP, but RAID is something altogether different. RAID is there to protect you from Hardware failure (not all kinds but mainly hard drive or ssd failure). Most larger scale modern scale data storage array are home to multiple hard drives. However ideally, most people don't want to access multiple drives, but rather one large data storage volume to place their data.

In most RAID instances, data is written across all the volumes in stripes (layers spanning all drives) and that means you get improves read and write speeds also as multiple drives are being accessed at the same time.

However the problems being in protecting yourself from one of those drives failing and therefore corrupting the entire digital storage volume!

Today we want to talk to you about RAID, give you an idea of the point of RAID, what kinds of RAID types their are, their advantages and disadvantages and most importantly of all, which one is right for you! We will look at which RAID gives you the fastest speeds. Which raid gives you the biggest capacity. Which RAID gives you the more space. Which RAID is the safest. And which RAID is best for your NAS server.

Do take a moment to check us out at SPAN.COM and our Build and Test service, SPANSTOR. We have been offering testing, building your RAID, testing your data storage device and ensuring your digital storage is ready to go for you. Check us out here http://www.span.com/about

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