出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/11 01:05 UTC 版)
Intel Rapid Storage Technology (formerly Intel Matrix RAID) is a firmware RAID system, rather than hardware RAID or software RAID. It first appeared in the ICH6R "southbridge" chip. Intel has continued to use an 'R' at the end of the southbridge's name --- ICH9R instead of ICH9 --- to indicate when a southbridge contains their Matrix RAID technology and no other upgrades. Complicating the matter is that instead of "R," a "DO," "DH," etc has indicated a southbridge that combined RAID with non-RAID-related upgrades to the southbridge. Like all RAID, Intel Matrix RAID employs two or more physical hard disks which the operating system will treat as a single disk, in order to increase redundancy which avoids data loss (as all RAID levels except RAID 0 do), and/or to increase the speed at which data is written to and/or read from a disk.