Use Multiple HardDrives as R.A.I.D.......

If you have an old hardrive would it not be wonderful to use it to add more capacity to your existing storage space? Well it is possible with R.A.I.D, R.A.I.D stands for  redundant array of inexpensive disks/ redundant array of independent disks.

If you have multiple hardrives & want to combine the storage capcity of all the Harddrives together, this is where RAID is useful, When multiple physical disks are set up to use RAID technology, they are said to be in a RAID array. This array distributes data across multiple disks, but the array is seen by the computer user and operating system as one single disk. RAID can be set up to serve several different purposes.RAID combines two or more physical hard disks into a single logical unit using special hardware or software. Hardware solutions are often designed to present themselves to the attached system as a single hard drive. RAID technology is primarily used in SERVERS to logically combine several physical storage drives into one Logical drives.It is possible to use RAID technology on a PC/laptop having muliple harddrives, some OSes Such as Linux have PLug N Play support for RAID devices, while some Like Windows require special Device drivers(except for windows server editions).