Timeline for Trouble understanding difference between disk and drives
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| Jun 15, 2023 at 21:43 | answer | added | JoelAZ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 15, 2023 at 21:00 | comment | added | Joep van Steen | To understand RAID, forget about definitions for disks and drives for a minute and consider that in order to stripe data (RAID 0) you need 2 storage devices regardless if those devices are hard drives or solid state drives. For RAID 1, to mirror you need two. For RAID 5 you will need at least 3 so you can reconstruct a failing drive using parity from the other two. IMO you're concentrating on the wrong thing although I can understand your confusion. | |
| Jun 15, 2023 at 20:47 | comment | added | ChanganAuto | All HDDs have multiple disks (as in "plates") inside, so what? Yes, SSDs don't have any, they're all chips inside. Again, why does it matter? | |
| Jun 15, 2023 at 20:45 | comment | added | ChanganAuto | Such distinctions are irrelevant in the context - RAID - of your question. | |
| Jun 15, 2023 at 20:38 | comment | added | Big_Port | techolac.com/computers/… it says here disk is more digital storage media while drive is the physical part unless I'm understanding it wrong | |
| Jun 15, 2023 at 20:33 | comment | added | ChanganAuto | Disk and drive are the same thing. You are probably thinking about PARTITIONS? | |
| S Jun 15, 2023 at 20:32 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jun 15, 2023 at 20:32 | history | asked | Big_Port | CC BY-SA 4.0 |