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By Juergen Haas, About.com

“RAID”

Glossary

Definition: RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks - 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. From Linux Guide @FirstLinux

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