RAID Controller

What Does RAID Controller Mean?

A RAID controller is a type of storage component that manages the disk drives in a RAID infrastructure. It provides the physical disk drives as logical units to the computer or server managing the RAID infrastructure.

Techopedia Explains RAID Controller

A RAID controller typically provides grouped logical disk space to the operating system and other applications.

RAID controllers are classified based on:

RAID level they support
Number of internal or external ports
Drive types (SAS/SATA/PATA)
Number of drives it can support
Front-end and back-end interfaces
Native cache memory

The front-end interface of the RAID controller enables communication with the server host adapter, whereas the back-end interface communicates and manages the underlying disks.

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