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I have revised the article and added more information. What still needs to be done:

Only the most common RAID levels/level combinations are listed; there are some that are either not standard (because there is just one vendor with a closed-source solution), or not common (some people use 3 levels of RAID. If anyone is interested these should be added
We probably need to link more words.
I am bad at spelling things.

Ideally, this should become a GA sometime. --Eptalon (talk) 12:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RAID PVGA

Hi Eptalon, you may (or may not!) have noticed I've made a few edits to RAID. I've got plenty to offer (it's an area I know a little about) so I'll be glad to help push this to VGA if you'd like a collaboration? The Rambling Man (talk) 14:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that would be very welcome. I think there is ample room for work:

The non-stadard RAID levels (see en:Non-standard RAID levels, but thats probably far too much)
The nested levels: Currently we only list the most common ones; we could extend to listing more, but perhaps need to make it a higher-level section (see: en:Nested RAID levels)
More references (also to scientific papers)
More detailed desc of the benefits and drawbacks of the different levels.
Better desc. of (historical) RAID 2. AFAIK there are no implementations at the moment, even though doing something like this would be pretty easy in software--Eptalon (talk) 15:02, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Todo list

The following should be done:

Proofread and edit to avoid saying things over and over again
Link and explain words that are difficult to understand
Remove/reformulate those phrases that sound like aren't English.

As it did not make VGA, we now have time to do this.--Eptalon (talk) 10:48, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Does it have RAID file system?

Greetings!

The article says that RAID has a file system:

"A RAID array has one file system. This Creates a single point of failure".

Why does RAID to have a file system? That seems confusing, do not see the point. It was my understanding that RAID is independent of the file system, RAID merely translates the addresses of a virtual hard disk (RAID) to physical disk addresses. Not have to have a file system

(This was translated using the goole translator I am Hispanic) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexvillalb159 (talk • contribs)

What I tried to say there is: If you have a RAID volume, the whole volume has one filesystem; the RAID system itself (itependently of whether this is Hardware-RAID, Hardware-Assisted-RAID, or Software RAID) will translate addresses, and have some logic for building/re-building/recovering data. The Operating System will see one "block device". To be able to reasonably use that block device, you will need to create a file system on it. Yes the file-system layer is a layer on top of the RAID layer. Compare with DVD: the drive provides the logic to read (and perhaps write) DVDs, but to be usable the disks themselves have a file system (which is UDF, most of the time). The same holds for Compact Discs that contain data...--Eptalon (talk) 13:19, 4 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]