RAID

Question 1

RAID

Answer 1

Redundant Array of

Inexpensive Disks

Question 2

What does RAID do?

Answer 2

Configures two or more hard drives to work together as an array of drives

Question 3

Fault tolerance

Answer 3

Computer’s ability to respond to a fault or catastrophe, like hardware failure or power outage.

Question 4

Spanning

Answer 4

Uses two hard drives When one drive is full data is written to second drive

Question 5

JBOD

Answer 5

Just a bunch of disks

Question 6

RAID 0

Answer 6

Uses two or more physical disks. Writes to physical disks evenly across all disks so that no one disk receives all activity. Windows calls RAID 0 a striped volume

Question 7

RAID 1: Mirroring

Answer 7

Duplicates data on one drive to another drive and is used for fault tolerance (mirrored volume)

Question 8

RAID 5

Answer 8

Uses three or more drives. Stripes data across drives and uses parity checking. Data is not duplicated

Question 9

RAID 10

Answer 9

RAID 1+0 (pronounced RAID one zero) Combination of RAID 1 and RAID 0.Takes at least 4 disks