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Typically a disk array provides increased availability, resiliency, and maintainability by using additional redundant components (controllers, power supplies, fans, etc.), often up to the point where all
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for the above vendors and do not themselves market the storage components they manufacture.
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HP EVA4400 storage array, consisting of 2U controller enclosure (top) and 4 2U disk shelves
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system which contains multiple disk drives. It is differentiated from a
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Traditionally disk arrays were divided into categories:
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Storage array

disk storage
disk enclosure
cache
RAID
deduplication
encryption
virtualization
Disk array controllers
Cache
random-access memory
non-volatile
flash memory
Disk enclosures
magnetic
hard disk drives
solid-state drives
Power supplies
single points of failure
hot-swappable
Network attached storage
Storage area network
Storage virtualization
Coraid, Inc.
DataDirect Networks
Dell EMC
Fujitsu
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hitachi Data Systems

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