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What is a RAID?

What is a RAID?

From the course: Hard Drive Management for Creative Pros

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What is a RAID?

- This part of the course is about RAID. No, not the insect killer, the redundant array of inexpensive devices, or independent devices, or drives. RAIDs can be configured to do many different jobs. They can be configured for speed, they can be configured for making an exact duplicate or mirror of data, and they can be configured to make protected storage. In a few minutes we'll go through each one and I'll show you the differences. They are very much different than JBOD, which stands for just a bunch of disks, which is where most of us start out with our storage solution. We'll buy an external drive, it fills up, we'll add another one, and pretty soon we are in a JBOD situation. That's just a bunch of disks.

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