RAID Technology

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RAID Technology

RAID technology is a fault tolerance for avoiding hard disk failure for the Windows NT server. RAID standing for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks is part of Windows NT and doesn’t require additional software. There are three levels in which RAID works levels 0, 1, and 5. There are levels 2, 3, and 4 but the server does not utilize them.

RAID level 0 is called a stripe set, which means that your data is written over many disks opposed to one. This means that the data you have to save gets partitioned over several disks to enlarge hard disk performance. The RAID will allow you to save a large amount of data quicker by taking the amount of disks you have and dividing the amount of information evenly over the disks at the same time. This does not have fault tole...

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