✴ RAID is a valuable technology for improving apparent disk speed and fault tolerance, but should you use it as a replacement for your backup?

RAID and its uses
RAID — Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks — is a technology used to increase either the reliability or speed of hard disk access, or both, by configuring multiple disks to act as a single disk drive. RAID is not a replacement for backing up, as it provides no protection for other types of hardware failure, malware (including ransomware), and user error.

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Chapters
0:00 RAID for Backup?
0:27 No
0:44 Understand RAID
1:20 RAID 1 is . . . improved reliability
2:35 RAID 0 is . . . improved speed
3:35 Dangers of RAID 0
4:00 Best of both worlds
6:40 RAID is . . . NOT a backup

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