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Our Raid technology allows us to
offer customers with an enhanced workstation based storage solution.
Raid was originally designed for servers and workstations to provide
fast and accurate data access for web servers and data networks. We
now bring that technology to our customers. Raid technology is based
upon two different options that provide different benefits.
Stripe 0 (Performance) raid setups combines two
physical hard drives and combine them into one single drive. Your
operating system will only see one drive, for example, if two 300GB
hard drives were combined in a stripe 0 setup, your OS will only see
one single 600GB hard drive. The benefit behind this setup is due to
the performance boost obtained. Imagine a data block of 1-2-3-4 is
sent to the hard drives, data block 1-3 are sent to drive 1, and 2-4
is sent to the other drive, splitting the data and reducing write
and access times. This provides a more responsive and fast desktop
computer. One issue about doing a Strip 0 setup is the chance of
data corruption goes up by 2. You run a higher risk of loosing your
data because, half the data is on one drive and the other, if one
drive goes bad, you loose all of your data.
Strip 1 (Mirror/Backup) raid setups also combine two
physical drives into once single drive, but, its benefit is totally
different. If you had two 300GB hard drives in your computer system,
your OS will only see one 300GB because the second drive acts as a
backup device. Anything written to your main drive is also written
to the second drive. This makes it easier to backup your data for
safer means, however, if your main drive is attached with a data
wipe virus, your second will also be erased. The only thing this
will protect is from a defective bad hard disk. |
