def: Redundant array of inexpensive ( or independent ) disks. The term coined in 1987 by researchers at the University of California at Berkeley to describe a series of redundant architectures used in fault-tolerant disk arrays.

A simple definition for a group of disks bound together to get better performance and reliability. I am embarking on a massive review of ATA ( or EIDE ) RAID controllers, to see what’s best for various environments.


The following products were tested from January to March of 2001 in our initital ATA RAID configuration.

RAID 2001
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