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Hard Drive RAID Explained

No matter how fast your processor runs, or how big your memory is, if your hard drive can’t keep up with the speed, you are still stuck with a slow system. A simple way to boost up the speed of the hard drive is to use two or more identical drives and set them up in a RAID setting.

RAID is the acronym for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. It is a method that utilizes multiple identical hard drives to exceed the performance of a larger and more expensive hard drive.
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