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Sandbox: As Good As It Gets
A RAID
system combines several drives into an array. The drive array looks
like one drive to the operating system. RAID drives work on three
principles: mirroring, striping, and error correction.
Mirroring means that the data is copied to several drives at the
same time, live, as you are creating and saving your files. Windows
Vista has several backup options, however most RAID controllers
provide their own software for automatically balancing and maintain
the system.
Striping is a term that means there are several drives. If one
drive fails, the other drives have redundant information. Parity,
or error correction means that the RAID system monitors the health
of the array and fixes or avoids bad hardware. A good
computer, a fast Internet connection, and a fault tolerant drive
system. That's about all the Computer Mama wants....except
strawberries dipped in good chocolate.
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