BEDROC 44

Windows device driver information for BEDROC 44

This hardware component is associated with the Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks technology. As such it is part of a solution that will allow the combining of numerous small yet inexpensive storage devices into an array of hard drives. The device driver of the BEDROC 44 provides an increase in performance for the storage mechanism of the host computer system. The resulting boost in the performance level is relatively better when compared to Single Large Expensive Drive solutions. Despite the number of drives involved in the process the underlying operating system environment will still detect the storage devices as a single drive. Part of the role of the device driver is to maintain optimum levels of communication between these interconnected storage solutions. In this scenario the Mean Time Between Failure for the array would be equivalent to that of the individual drives divided by the number of physical hard drives involved in the array.

When talking about Mean Time Between Failure values for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks solutions the result would generally be too low for the requirements of many software applications. As a workaround the BEDROC 44 and its corresponding device driver supports the redundant storage of data in order to create a fault tolerant system of disk arrays. The device driver is likewise capable of supporting all five types of array architecture that can be implemented under the Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks solution. The device driver and its supported hardware component makes use of a method known as striping. This process concatenates numerous drives into a single logical storage element. Striping basically partitions every hard drive in the array into stripes that can be as small as 512 bytes or as big as several megabytes. These stripes are then arranged in such a way that stripes from every array are placed alternately. It is highly recommended you run a free registry scan for and BEDROC 44 errors before installing any driver updates.