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RAID – Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAID – Redundant Array of Independent Disks           RAID concept was developed by University of California at Berkeley in 1987.       RAID arrays are used to improve the reliability & performance of Hard disks.       RAB (RAID Advisory Board) was formed in 1992 to standardize RAID concepts.     Standard RAID levels advised by RAB are       Hybrid (Nested) RAID levels                RAID 10 (1+0)                     RAID 01 (0+1)           The most common RAID types used today are explained below Ø RAID 0 – Disk Striping §   Spreading the data between multiple drives (at least 2 drives) is called data striping. §   Increases hard drive access speed (High read/write performance) §   No redundancy §   File data is divided into bl...