I need help with RAID

Ethn · February 16, 2015

Hello, I am going to be building my first computer and I need to know what raid is, I was told it like takes two SSD or HDD's and put's it into one big drive somehow? like sli or some shid, Can someone dumb it down for me?

ELSknutson · February 16, 2015

Ethn · February 16, 2015

I watched it but it's so fast and confusing

ELSknutson · February 16, 2015

I watched it but it's so fast and confusing

Logun · February 16, 2015

There are different types of RAID

RAID can be used to increase speed (how quickly you read and write to/from your storage)

and RAID can also be used to clone your data (some people say "back up" your data but that's a bit of a misnomer)

RAID0 (raid zero) is when you take 2 or more drives (of equal value) and set it up so the computer views this group of drives as only one single drive. Because 2 drives have 2 connections (SATA) to the motherboard, the interface is that much faster than just one drive with only one connection. The way the computer does this is called striping. Envision a line of data which crosses one drive onto the next without interruption. This is striping.

Here's the wiki on RAID

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID