Can someone explain me how RAID works? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Presi300@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I recently got a few (5) hard drives to turn my home server into a NAS with trueNAS scale and my idea is to have 4 usable and 1 for redundancy, my question is... How does RAID work, like what is RAID 0, RAID 5, software RAID etc, and does any of that even matter for my use case?

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
NAS	Network-Attached Storage
PCIe	Peripheral Component Interconnect Express
RAID	Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SSD	Solid State Drive mass storage
ZFS	Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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