Beginners Guides: Installing RAID on a Desktop PC
 

"With the right number of identical hard drives, motherboards that support RAID can choose from RAID 0, RAID 1, and sometimes even RAID 0+1 for improved performance, data redundancy and backups. In this PCSTATS Beginners Guide, we will explore how the different implementations of RAID technology function, and how you can make your own RAID setup using a hardware RAID controller."
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*Source: PCStats (http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=830)*

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