With all these worries about hard-disk crashing, has anybody consider or
even purchase RAID controllers as an insurance. See link
http://www.promise.com

I have no idea about this product...been reading something about
RAID...which stands for "Redundant Array of Indepedent(Inexpensive) Disks"

If what they are selling is what I think it is, then you insert this card
into your PC with a number of hard disks, example 4 hard-disk. If one
hard-disk crashes, then information from the other 3 hard-disk can be used
to regenerate the lost data.

It is also suppose to make the 4 disk look like one large disk (maybe like
total of 3 disks capacity)

It is also suppose to be faster, as data are stored across multiple disk,
and retrival is faster because 3 disks are spinning to get data
simultaneously..

I thought such things are availiable only for HIGH END COMPUTERS, and I am
surprise it is avaliable for PC. Anybody tried this product before ? and Did
I understand what RAID is correctly ?

Derek

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