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Hardware RAID

Hardware RAID

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Hardware RAID

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- If you really want to see RAID in action, the most fun way to do it, in my opinion, is hardware RAID. Now, hardware RAID means that we have some kind of groovy high-end controller that is actually talking to the hard drives and helps configure them as RAID 0 or RAID 1 or RAID 5 or RAID 10 or whatever it might be, and it does all the configuration, and then when we boot into the operating system, this big array that we've set up just shows up as a single drive letter. Now, you don't necessarily have to have a high-end controller these days. If you've got a desktop system, lots and lots, more than 50% of all desktop motherboards these days have built-in RAID controllers soldered to the motherboard, and this one certainly does. So what I've got here is my big box, and I've got one, two, three, four identical 4TB hard drives, all buckled in. Now, you've got to be a little bit careful when you're setting up RAID in these types of systems. Right now, I'm booting off an M.2 drive, and it's…

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