Been out of the loop for a while

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ggoerl

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jan 23, 2008

• #1

Hey, everyone I have not followed computer hardware, terms and what not for quite a while and was wondering if anyone could tell me specifically about raid, as well as sas/sata. All I know is that it is referring to hd's 😕

 

Eidorian

macrumors Penryn

• Jan 23, 2008

• #2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Attached_SCSI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA

Standard and informative articles I pulled off the interweb using Google. Is there anything else that you'd like to know? RAID is a method of providing disk performance/redundancy and SAS/SATA are disk connectivity busses.

 

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SELFsponsored

macrumors newbie

• Jan 23, 2008

• #3

This may help you:
http://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.html

 

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ggoerl

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Jan 24, 2008

• #4

so raid basically in a sense it basically just copies/mirrors all of your data to multiple to drives for backup, and a faster and more reliable read of data?

I plan on getting an external drive and was looking into getting a g-tech 500gb drive any suggestions or comments?

here's the drive:
http://www.powermax.com/parts/show/d-gte-908004-01?src=g

 

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SELFsponsored

macrumors newbie

• Jan 24, 2008

• #5

ggoerl said:

so raid basically in a sense it basically just copies/mirrors all of your data to multiple to drives for backup, and a faster and more reliable read of data?

I plan on getting an external drive and was looking into getting a g-tech 500gb drive any suggestions or comments?

here's the drive:
http://www.powermax.com/parts/show/d-gte-908004-01?src=g

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Awesome drive!
I use a couple of these for editing BIG projects that need to be done quick.