On 28-Oct-07, at 10:00 AM, William Robb wrote: > > Hi, I just bought a new rig. > The guy who did the initial install for me set up a 2 drive RAID > array, > apparently they are "striped". > Could some kind soul please explain in really small words and easy to > understand concepts just exactly what this is? > The array is 2 500gb drives that show as a single 1tb drive. > Thanks
Striping is where two or more drives are treated as one. All information is recorded over the two drives, so there are bits and pieces on both. It's used to speed up read/write access. It's not useful for backups. If one drive fails, you lose the data on both drives due to the way the data is shared over the two drives. HTH. Mike -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
