disk array??
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- Seph
Can anyone tell me in simple terms what a "Disk Array" is?
Dont want my client to know what a spaz I am.
Muchas.
- Seph0
I dont know, but thats probably because I am bumping and I asked the question in the first place.
- jpea0
an array of disks...
no, seriously, he might be talking about RAID.
If it is, raid is just connected many disks, either through hardware (faster) or software (slower), making the computer think that you have one disk. So when you write a file to your "disk" it writes a chunk of it to each disk, thus splitting the time it takes to write to disk (cause it's going to, say, 4 disks instead of 1)maybe that's what he's talking about? or if he really just said "an array of disks" he means just a bunch of disks?
- joyride0
Many variations of RAID. Used to protect data in case one drive fails. It will be written to another drive with no loss of downtime if one fails. But that is the usual definition of disk array.
- Seph0
thanks ! big love.
I still dont really really completely utterly totally understand the concept though.
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- jpea0
here's some articles about it
http://linas.org/linux/raid.html…
http://www.apple.com/xserve/raid…
http://arstechnica.com/paedia/r/…
the ars one might be the best article about it
- Seph0
thanks for the urls, reading now.... that last one needs to go in the "Unfortunate URLs" thread.
- jpea0
yeah, ars isn't really known to be a site chock full of "cool" people:-)
but the forums are useful a lot of the time for questions about basically anything (as long as it's not involving getting women or socialization of any type!)
- Seph0
jpea, sounds like NT. ha ha ha!