Basics of RAID

Posted by on 01/27 at 02:03 PM Permalink

A couple of the recent Tech Tips have made mention of RAID, but the level of detail required in those tips didn’t shed much light on what RAID actually is. The number of e-mail responses and comments in the Readers Digress section was convincing enough that an introduction to the basics of RAID would be an appropriate Tech Tip, so here it is.

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    Posted by Peter Roth  on  09/29  at  09:00 PM

  1. This was a nice. quick. and easy to read guide. I remember someone explaining RAID to me once but it was as easy to grasp as it was in this article. Thanks for the info keep up the great work.

    -PR

    2. Posted by Joseph Brock  on  01/25  at  04:39 PM

  2. I enjoyed your teachings,and plan on setting up my FIRST scsi RAID because of your article!

    3. Posted by Peter  on  05/18  at  01:06 AM

  3. Hi!
    Thanks for the article, I just had a few easy questions. I am going to build a home server (RAID 6), this means that I be buy a RAID card (RAID 6 is not normally on motherboards), so:

    1. Are all RAID cards compatible with all motherboards? If not then what should I watch out for.

    2. (dumb question) I will be using SATA hard drives and I wanted to know where does the power come from for the drives that are connected to the RAID card?
    - Does the power come from the RAID card?
    - Or do you just connect a data cable from the RAID card to the hard drvie and then connect a power cable from the powersupply to the hard drives?

    Thanks a lot
    Peter

    4. Posted by John Betancourth  on  09/02  at  09:26 AM

  4. I have a very important question regarding hard drives, Im putting together a new computer and I ask a sales person of compusa store if I could use an ATA drive and SATA drive combine in the system, with the Motherboard(ASRock Wolfdale1333-D667 R2)and he said yes. I did all the assembly and configuration an it shows both drives there but on the windows Media Center Edition(XP)it dosn’t show the SATA(SLAVE) drive, I have to say the OP is in the ATA drive(MASTER)Please let me know if the problem is for combine the 2 drives or the problem is on the windows XP software an how to solve it.
    Thank you for your help in this matter...John B.

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