1. From a computer's perspective, what does RAID do?
It sees multiple hard drives into one hard drive.
2. What is the advantage of disk striping?
Data is written to the hard drive at the same time therefore makes writing and reading very fast.
3. What is the main disadvantage of disk striping?
If one drive fails then the files will become corrupted.
4. What is the main advantage and disadvantage of disk mirroring?
It makes a copy of the written data on another drive, so in th event of one disk failing it is automatically written to the other which provides redundancy. A disadvantage is that it is not faster and the storage capacity is based one one disk.
5. What is the major advantage of RAID 5?
Disk striping with parroting.
6. In a RAID 5 context, what does hot swappable mean?
Hot swappable means that a Hard drive can be pulled and replaced without having to turn off the computers.
7. What are the 3 most common RAID configurations?
The most common RAID configurations are: RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5.
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