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The primary advantages of using a RAID system are safer backups and increased performance. While backup is the obvious benefit of using a RAID system, the performance benefit may come as a surprise. Writing large amounts of data across several separate hard drives, instead of one single unit, called striping, is faster than writing the same files to a single hard drive.
