RAID Storage--High-level Impact

So then, how best to maximize RAID and minimize the potential for lost digital assets? Leenerman offers the following tips.

• Start with a thorough analysis of your own particular applications needs, looking closely at performance and capacity.
• Think about what sort of redundancy features you might want. Redundancy is what RAID is all about. If a prepress operation is cost-sensitive, at a minimum, the RAID system needs to provide a parity drive. The disk drive is one of the most common components in a RAID system to fail. If a prepress facility can spend a little more, it can obtain a RAID box with hot-swap drives and power supplies to ensure that productivity is always up and running.