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RAID

Acronym that stands for Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks, this technology is used for storage schemes to increase storage reliability and performance by organising and connecting multiple discs and devices into an array to duplicate components; the multiple discs are seen as a single array by both operating system and user.

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