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Excerpt: I found this really good glossary of terms for Raid and Raid Arrays. It is easy to forget the different configurations and what they mean. There are five basic types of array architectures that were originally defined as RAID 1 through RAID 5. Each provides disk fault-tolerance but with different compromises in features and performance. In addition to these five redundant array architectures, it has become popular to refer to a non-redundant array of disk drives as a RAID 0 array. All credit to DEW Associates Corporation Glossary of Terms Raid Array Technology Array Two or more hard disk… please continue...