stripe set — A single volume created across multiple hard disk drives and accessed in parallel to optimize disk access time. See also disk striping; disk striping with parity … Dictionary of networking
disk striping with parity — The addition of parity information across a disk stripe so that if a single disk partition fails, the data on that disk can be re created from the information stored across the remaining partitions in the disk stripe. See also disk… … Dictionary of networking
Standard RAID levels — The standard RAID levels are a basic set of RAID configurations and employ striping, mirroring, or parity.The standard RAID levels can be nested for other benefits ( see Nested RAID levels ). Concatenation (SPAN) The controller treats each drive… … Wikipedia
RAID — This article is about the data storage technology. For other uses, see Raid (disambiguation). RAID, an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks (originally Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks),[1] is a storage… … Wikipedia
disk striping — The technique of combining a set of disk partitions located on different hard disks into a single volume, creating a virtual stripe across the partitions that the operating system recognizes as a single drive. Disk striping can occur at the… … Dictionary of networking
Nested RAID levels — Levels of nested RAID,[1] also known as hybrid RAID,[2] combine two or more of the standard levels of RAID (redundant array of independent disks) to gain performance, additional redundancy, or both. Contents 1 Nesting 2 RAID 0+1 … Wikipedia
Non-standard RAID levels — Main article: RAID Although all RAID implementations differ from the specification to some extent, some companies have developed non standard RAID implementations that differ substantially from the standard. Non RAID drive architectures… … Wikipedia
Access control — is the ability to permit or deny the use of a particular resource by a particular entity. Access control mechanisms can be used in managing physical resources (such as a movie theater, to which only ticketholders should be admitted), logical… … Wikipedia
Card reader — A card reader is a data input device that reads data from a card shaped storage medium. Historically, paper or cardboard punched cards were used throughout the first several decades of the computer industry to store information and write programs … Wikipedia
mdadm — Original author(s) Neil Brown Developer(s) Neil Brown Initial release 2001 Stable release 3.2.1[1] / April 28 … Wikipedia
Data corruption — Photo data corruption; in this case, a result of a failed data recovery from a hard disk drive Data corruption refers to errors in computer data that occur during writing, reading, storage, transmission, or processing, which introduce unintended… … Wikipedia