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Two major challenges facing the storage industry today are keeping pace with the increasing performance demands of computer
systems by improving disk I/O throughput and providing data accessibility in the face of hard disk failures.
The idea of RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) was first introduced by David A. Patterson, Garth Gibson and Randy
H. Katz at the University California at Berkeley in 1988. RAID is a purpose of storing the same data in different places on
multiple hard disks and improves storage subsystem performance. The advantage of RAID is to provide better throughput
performance and/or data fault tolerance. Better performance is accomplished by sharing the workload in parallel among multiple
physical hard drives. Fault-tolerance is achieved through data redundant operation where if one (or more) drive fails or has a
sector failure, a mirrored copy of the data can be found on another drive(s).
A RAID appears to the operating system to be a single logical hard disk. The RAID controller manages how the data is stored
and accessed across the physical and logical arrays. The RAID controller help users to ensure that the operating system only
sees the logical drives and users do not need to worry about managing the complicated schema.
For optimal performance results, select identical hard drives to install in disk arrays. The drives' matched performance allows
the array to function better as a single drive.
Warning: The Serial ATA RAID function
can be supported under Windows XP
and Windows .Net environments.
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