What RAID Options are Available for My Server Order?

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.  The most important thing to know is that you will likely be kicking yourself later if you decide against a RAID, specifically a mirror.  It is essentially your first, automatic level of back-up. RAID is a method of backup in which a great number of hard drives could be connected to form a single, massive capacity storage device. In this way it could offer the most storage capactiy, the best performance and the most dependability.

There are three key concepts in RAID:

• Mirroring, which refers to the copying of data to more than one disk
• Striping, which refers to the splitting of data across more than one disk
• Error correction, in which redundant data is stored so that problems can be detected and possibly fixed (sometimes called fault tolerance)

Different RAID levels use one of these techniques or employ variations of them, depending on what the system requires. The main purposes of using RAID are to obtain better reliability and to protect information that is crucial to a business (like a database of customer orders), or any situation, circumstance or scenario in which speed plays an important role, like, for example a business that delivers video on demand television programs to many viewers. To learn more about RAID, we recommend you read the Wikipedia article on RAID.

We offer the following RAID controllers:

• RAID 0 - $25/m
• RAID 1 - $25/m
• RAID 5 - $50/m
• RAID 10 - $50/m

NOTE:

1. We only offer 320GB hard drives as the second drive so unless 1st drive is upgraded (in the case of servers with either 160GB or 250GB hard drives installed), adding a second larger drive will revert the RAID configuration to the size of the 1st drive.
2. Clearance servers only have the option of RAID 0 and RAID 1.

When using RAID controllers, you must ensure you order appropriate (and the appropriate amount of) hard drives.  For more information, we recommend you contact one of our Sales Representatives using the live chat feature on the website, contact them at Sales@NanoServers.net, or call them at 1.888.354.6128.x1.