| |
| | RAID and Data Protection Solutions for Linux |
 | | RAID, short for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, is a method whereby information is spread across several disks, using techniques such as disk striping (RAID Level 0) and disk mirroring (RAID level 1) to achieve redundancy, lower latency and/or higher bandwidth for reading and/or writing, and recoverability from hard-disk crashes. |
 | | RAID will not help you recover data lost in this way; to mitigate these kinds of losses, you need to perform regular backups (to archive media that aren't easily lost in a fire, stolen, or accidentally erased). |
 | | Linux RAID devices cannot be dynamically resized, nor is it easy to move a RAID array from one set of drives to another. |
| linas.org /linux/raid.html (4585 words) |
|