RAID controllers have a wide variety of benefits which apply to the cloud computing community. RAID essentially improves performance for programmers that need to compute various codes.

Products supplied by Areca are mostly computer storage systems. These includes SATA Raid, HBAs SAS RAID HBAs and non-RAIDs, Mezzanine Boards, RAID controllers and Internal RAID racks.

That is RAID 1. It uses two drives with identical data so if one fails, you have the other drive.

One variation of RAID 1 used by certain controllers is to write as RAID 1 but read more like RAID 0 (but without the striping). That way, you have the write protection of a mirrored set, but can use the two drives to do interleaved reads for a read performance boost.

The do a Clean install after you back up your data. RAID controllers can cause upgrade issues because of potential data loss inherent in the technology so a Clean install is your safest bet. Enjoy Win7, it`s fast, stable and a real winner!

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