CompTIA A+ Drive Initialization in RAID

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I am a beginners beginner. Could you please help me. Initialization is RAID is this the same as configuration or done before configuration. I think I understand you cannot configure the RAID until You initialize. Is that just simply turn on the system
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Have you tried googling creatively?
Does anyone else understand this? Maybe i'm reading it wrong. haha.
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For software RAID, you can use XP....only supports 0 (which is considered Striping) if I remember correctly and you would need to use dynamic disc and then set to RAID 0 through Disk Management.
You can also purchase RAID controllers which is considered the hardware version.
Michael
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Yes, the objectives state you need to know RAID but I only received one question about it and it was very very easy. So I personally would not put a lot of emphasis on it and just know RAID 0, 1, and 5.......for instance 0 is striping at least 2 drives, 1 is mirroring at least 2 drives, and 5 is striped disks with parity and at least 3 drives.
Other than that would not worry myself with it to much:)
Michael
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