RAID is an acronym for “Redundant Array of Independent Drives,” or “Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives.” The main idea behind RAID is the ability to take multiple drives and have them virtualised as a single drive. RAID 5 provides a very redundant fault tolerance with performance advantages that allows data to be safeguarded while only sacrificing the equivalent of one drive’s space.

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