RAID is something all have heard about but very few understand, at least fully. So lets get off on the right foot. RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks. There are a dozen or so theories as to why RAID was conceptualized, but the most accepted reason is that once upon a time, not long ago, disks were small and expensive. In order to provide a large amount of data one had to have a bunch of disks all mounted in a single file tree, which was a real mess. So, to solve this problem RAID was born.
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