26 May 2015 - RAID

RAID originally stood for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks, but that is a rambling acronym with irrelevant digressions, since after all RAED could be pronounced the same. Today the I is usually taken as Independent, making it a rong application of incorrect discourse. In practice, people usually say “RAID array”, which is silly, or “disk array”, which has no future because it makes sense. In case of verbing, they say “we’ll RAID these drives”, to which I can only answer “Arr!”