RAID
Also searched as: raid · raid 0 · raid array · disk array
What it means
A way of joining several drives so they act as one — some setups for speed, some for a safety backup copy, some for both. The name stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
More detail
For a gaming PC it's rarely worth the trouble: a single modern NVMe drive is already so fast that striping drives for speed barely moves load times. The backup-style setups protect against a drive dying, which is real value, but that's data safety, not performance. …
In the Blackbook
The deeper explanation continues inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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