Originally posted at http://www.318.com/TechJournal The acronym for RAID can often be misleading as it has had multiple meanings over the years. RAID originally stood for a redundant array of inexpensive disks. The acronym RAID is now also known as a redundant array of independent disks as not all RAID disks are inexpensive. RAID refers to a hard drive storage mechanism using multiple hard drives to share or replicate data among the drives. In some cases this can mean having data that is written to a single logical drive stored on multiple drives so there is redundancy of the data or RAID can be used to maximize throughput to drives by…