Vlogmas 2022 Day 25: RAID is not a backup

Published: Dec. 25, 2022, 3:20 p.m.

Many businesses make serious mistakes that place their data at unnecessary risk. These mistakes often stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of storage technologies.

Redundant Array of Independent Disks, more commonly referred to by the acronym RAID, is an approach to data storage virtualization that combines multiple physical disk drives into one or more logical storage volumes. Depending on the RAID scheme, it could increase overall capacity, performance, and reliability. Or not.