Thread: OT: Buying vs. building your own computer
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Old July 30th, 2005, 03:52 PM
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Default Re: OT: Buying vs. building your own computer
A RAID array is using multiple identical hard drives to both increase storage and make data loss more infrequent. The data tends to be located on multiple drives in the array, so one hard drive failing means that you probably won't lose much, if anything. At least, that is what I think RAID arrays are for... Might be just a specialized use for them or something.
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