RAID levels (Was: [TCLUG:22757] Raid and other storage stories)

[Andy Zbikowski <andyzb@ltiflex.com>]

First, to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb:

Please remember to trim your posts,
trim your posts, trim your posts.
Please remember to trim your posts,
or I will kick your ass.

That said and done, some out there might just have an inkling of what RAID
(Redundand Array of Inexpensive Disks) is but get totally confused with RAID
levels. Maybe some don't know what RAID is at all, who knows. (There are
more expansions to RAID, that just happened to be the first to come to
mind.)

Here's a page I found that has a decent description of RAID and RAID levels. 
http://www.acnc.com/raid.html

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