What is software RAID?

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RAID - Redundant Array of Independant Disks

RAID enables separate devices to be written to as one drive. RAID can be very useful for creating data storage that has many valuable attributes. RAID enables you to have a storage system that can provide fast data transfer, redundancy or a mixture of both, using multiple drives. RAID enables you to create a large virtual partition that is mad...

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