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FIBRE-to-SAS/SATA RAID SUBSYSTEM
RAID is traditionally used on servers, but can be also used on workstations. The latter
was once common in storage-intensive applications such as video and audio editing, but
has become less advantageous with the advent of large, fast, and inexpensive hard
drives based on perpendicular recording technology.
Workstation/CAD
The term "workstation" has also been used to refer to a terminal or PC hooked up
to network. Workstations are often optimized for displaying and manipulating
complex data such as 3D mechanical design, engineering simulation results,
animation and rendering of images, and mathematical plots.
File Server
RAID might be optimized as
providing a location for the shared storage of information (such as documents,
sound files, photographs, movies, images, databases, etc.) that can be accessed by
the workstations that are attached to the network. A File Server is designed
primarily to enable the rapid storage and retrieval of data where the heavy
computation is provided by the workstations.
Media Server
While on some, RAID can be optimized as media server that range from an
enterprise class machine providing video on demand, to more commonly, a small
home computer storing various digital media.
Database
RAID also has a great usage in transaction processing. Database is the well known
structured collection of data and related information that is organized so that it can
easily be accessed, managed, and updated.
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a File Server that has the primary purpose of
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