In a world full of data management and storage, data storage devices have become increasingly popular for at home users and corporations. As data keeps growing the strain on these data storage devices has been increasing. This increased strain leads to slow read and write times as well as corrupt or otherwise damaged storage devices. To combat these issues a form of data storage device management has become popular known as RAID. RAID stands for redundant array of independent disks or redundant array of inexpensive discs, depending on who you ask. Now there are several RAID configurations that are used all with drawbacks and strengths. This article will go over some of the most common configurations, RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 10.

In today’s world, everyone has data that they care about. From family photos to that big essay that you wrote in Microsoft word, we all have data we need to protect. Only a handful of us ever bother to backup our data and those of us who do often don’t do it the right way. When data is backup properly you face risks from corrupt hard drives, fires, accidental deletion, sunspots, and countless other things.