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What is RAID?

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

600Host explain exactly what RAID is. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). It is offered as standard on our UK web hosting services at 600host UK. Raid is a configuration of at least two or more hard drivers linked a specific purpose such as back-ups, gaming performance or custom preferences from the dedicated server customer.

With the view to improve maximum stability and fault tolerance, manufacturers needed something to help prevent and improve web servers thus RAID technology was invented.

There is 10 configurations offered by RAID web servers depending on the user requirements.