RAID相关知识简介

RAID是什么

RAID (originally redundant array of inexpensive disks, now commonly redundant array of independent disks) is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into a single logical unit for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both.

RAID翻译为中文名为，“独立磁盘冗余阵列”，之前老的叫法是，“廉价磁盘冗余阵列”。

RAID的作用

Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways, referred to as RAID levels, depending on the required level of redundancy and performance. The different schemas, or data distribution layouts, are named by the word RAID followed by a number, for example RAID 0 or RAID 1. Each schema, or a RAID level, provides a different balance among the key goals: reliability, availability, performance, and capacity. RAID levels greater than RAID 0 provide protection against unrecoverable sector read errors, as well as against failures of whole physical drives.

1. 提高传输速率
   RAID通过在多个磁盘上同时存储和读取数据来大幅提高存储系统的throughput。在RAID中，可以让很多磁盘驱动器同时传输数据，而这些磁盘驱动器在逻辑上又是一个磁盘驱动器ÿ