>It is a specific technology, but not a specific hardware technology. RAID >is a technology that uses multiple hard drives for performance, data >management or reliability.
The above is correct as long as you write it in the past tense. The error is not realizing that all of these benefits can be more easily obtained using different, newer methods. Time marches on! >seems to me in google's case instead of using multiple hard drives in one >server/box, they are using a server/box as if it were a drive and using >multiple boxes to denote the (for lack of a better word) RAID. Mirroring >whole machines rather then just HD's. Is the use of multiple servers just a different way to implement RAID? Only if you stretch the definition of RAID to the extreme and ignore what the "D" stands for. It also moves completely out of the context of this discussion: what kind of drive is best for storing archives. I woule never use a RAID for that. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
