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RAID

Acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

The phrase Redundant Array of Independent Disks is adapted from the 1988 SIGMOD paper A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks. In modern systems, RAID techniques are often applied to independent storage devices, including technologies other than disk.

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