Through the magic of manipulating the addressing of sectors of the drives, RAID can indeed make can make two drives appear as one - all transparent to the operating system. This can be accomplished in multiple ways for multiple purposes.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID What you describe appears to be RAID 0. This provides double the storage and much faster performance that a single drive. This comes at the expense of reliability. FYI, "striped" simply means that the data for each file is split across more than one disk so that multiple sectors can be written or retrived at once (speed). Regards, Bob... -------------------------------------------------------- "Art is not a reflection of reality. it is the reality of a reflection." -Jean Luc Godard ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, I just bought a new rig. > The guy who did the initial install for me set up a 2 drive RAID array, > apparently they are "striped". > Could some kind soul please explain in really small words and easy to > understand concepts just exactly what this is? > The array is 2 500gb drives that show as a single 1tb drive. > Thanks -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
