what is RAID anyways?

[kazanchik]

and why get a motherboard with it as oppossed to getting one without it?

 

[BatmanNate]

RAID is a harddrive configuration done through hardware or software that allows striping of drives (writing alternating stripes of data to 2 different drives to decrease access time), or mirroring of drives (creating a redundant image in case of drive failure), or both.

 

[Macaw]

Batman,

My understanding is that striping doesn't decrease access time whatsoever it just increases throughput.

 

[Biggs]

Look up here.

 

[BatmanNate]

Nevermind, my ASCII skills of drawing drive accessing for data strips are suck.

 

[Dameon]

*beep*
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