What is RAID?

[i3omberman28]

Can someone plz tell me what RAID is?
And also, can someone plz tell me if the ASUS A7M/266 DDR is a good motherboard for gaming purposes?

Is there any other MOBO better than this one for my gaming purposes?

[Gabriel]

Techie:
Redundant Array of Independent (or Inexpensive) Disks

Simple:
Few Disk that Function as One Big Disk in Order To Gain Speed, Availabilty And Fault Taulerance.

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[sdrawkcab]

Basically your data is more secure, how much more depends on the level of RAID you use, striping, parity, or both.
http://whatis.techtarget.com/ is another awesome site to look this stuff up when you need to.

[Scuba]

Look at This.
I hope it will help

[Warp_Core]

RAID 0 is Disk Striping; data is written and read over more than one physical disk (NOT partition). Because the I/O is distributed over more than one channel, spped is - supposedly - greatly enhanced. RAID 1 is Disk Mirroring is writing the same data to more than one disk simultaneously, so if you lose a disk, you don't lose your data. RAID 1+0 is a combination of the above which requires at least 4 disks. RAID 5 is Disk Striping With Parity, but that's something else again.

[MacGyver]

I've always liked this article: http://arstechnica.com/paedia/r/raid-1.html

It goes into detail about what each type of RAID is, with neat pictures.

[MacGyver]

BTW, that mobo you speak of will certainly do well for any game you can throw at it - if you don't mind shelling out the extra bucks for the DDR RAM. For gaming, I would be more concerned with the amount of RAM and the video card. Any CPU faster than 800 is going to sufficient for any game on the market today.