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Originally posted by riosluts
whats RAID exactly? is it an alternative to IDE?
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It are normal IDE drives but setup like this:
2 drives are striped, which means if you read/write a file, it's split up between the 2 drives, which makes it 2 times as fast (RAID 0).
These 2 drives are also mirrored (exact copies), so 2 drives have to fail before I loose any data (RAID 1).