Originally coined as a cheeky acronym to describe “a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks” – a technique which allowed computer users to maximise the reliability of their data storage by using arrays of cheaper and less reliable PC-style disk-drives – “RAID” is now used as a general term for forms of data storage that divide and copy information across multiple hard disks.

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