Discussion # 6 RAID Message expanded. Message read RAID posted by BRANDON MAZZONE, Mar 05, 2016, 7:41 PM Raid (redundant array of independent disks) is the adopted industry standard way of organizing multiple storage disk arrays. The industry adopted these designs to provide a compatible storage option for multiple platforms. This Raid scheme is made up of 7 levels that are associated with their data format. These levels are not hierarchal but do share common characteristics. These characteristics include that the Operating system will see the array of physical drives as a single drive. Also data within the drives is shared amongst them. Another characteristic is that the drives are redundant to prevent a disk failure. I personally have a 4 solid state drive RAID array on my personal use computer. I like the way the drives function as one mass storage pool and i can access data from all the drives from one place. posted by KERONE DIXON, Mar 05, 2016, 10:26 PM RAID (redundant array of independent disks; originally redundant array of inexpensive disks) provides a way of storing the same data in different places (thus, redundantly) on multiple hard disks (though not all RAID levels provide redundancy). By placing data on multiple disks, input/output (I/O) operations can overlap in a balanced way, improving performance. Since multiple disks increase the mean time between failures, storing data redundantly also increases fault tolerance. RAID arrays appear to the operating system (OS) as a single logical hard disk. RAID employs the technique of disk mirroring or disk striping, which involves partitioning each drive's storage space into units ranging from a sector up to several megabytes. The stripes of all the disks are interleaved and addressed in order. Message expanded. Message read Re: RAID posted by JOSEPH FISCHER, Mar 06, 2016, 9:19 AM Raid 5 is the type of raid I see at my customer site. It gives them a good level of protection and it allows them to stay running should they have a singular disk failure. They are regularly monitoring their systems so they will normally catch the single fault and replace it quickly. If they happen to have a second failure before replacing the first though they are sunk. http://www.raidrecoveryonline.com/raid10_vs_raid5/ Message expanded. Message read Re: RAID posted by RICHARD BOHATY, Mar 06, 2016, 10:00 AM Monitoring is the key, we had 2 go out on a raid 5 and discovered the 1st one had been alarming for 3 weeks :-( monitoring and good backups :-) Please talk about discussion with your own words. Please do not get copied work from the internet. Discussion # 7 File Attributes Message expanded. Message read File Attributes posted by ALICIA RANGEL, Mar 04, 2016, 9:29 PM When a file is named it is for the users, benefit only. The computer does not operate off of the files name but does operate on its contents and coding or format. After the file is named the name typically stay with the fi.