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Are you a Know-IT-All? MAID

Posted by: Margaret Rouse

MAID, Storage, green computing, green data center

Our WhatIs.com Tech Term is MAID

MAID (massive array of idle disks) is a storage technology in which only those drives in active use are spinning at any given time. This reduces power consumption and prolongs the lives of the drives.

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