RAID is an acronym that stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive or Redundant Array of Independent Disks. RAID is a term used in computing. With RAID, several hard disks are made into one logical disk.

RAID 0 (Strip)

  • Not Fault Tolerant
  • Performance benefit

RAID 1 (mirror)

  • Fault-Tolerant
  • Performance benefit

RAID 5

  • Fault-Tolerant
  • At least 3 disks
  • performance benefit

RAID 6

 

RAID 10