| Hardware RAID is a method available to protect the data you have stored on your dedicated server with PingPipe. The term RAID short form for the phrase “redundant array of independent disks”. It involves having more than one hard drive and most often installing controller hardware on your server so that the operating system only “sees” one drive. Having RAID on your dedicated server is a good way to protect your data and can help make accessing any single file quicker than when only a single hard drive is used. There are many different levels of RAID you can choose to implement, RAID-1 is the most popular. This is when your data is mirrored onto two hard drives. The information stored on each disk is identical, so this level of RAID can be thought of as a “real-time backup”. Data can be read from either hard drive, so it speeds up access times when there are multiple users. If any one disk fails it can be replaced and the array will rebuild itself. RAID can be thought of as a form of insurance for your data: you may never have to take advantage of it, but it only takes one hard drive failure to make you wish you had it. Server hard drives are mechanical, and as such they do sometimes fail. If your data is important RAID should be in your hardware budget, perhaps with secure backup space also (as another level of redundancy). The best time to get hardware RAID is when you pleace your order for your dedicated server with PingPipe, If you wait until after the operating system has been loaded a reformat would be needed in order to have the RAID card recognized by the server. |
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