What is RAID?

What is the difference between software and hardware RAID?

What does it mean when a device is hot swappable?

What is RAID 0 (Striping)?

What does redundant mean?

What is RAID 1 (Mirroring)?

What is RAID 5 (Striping with Parity)?

What is RAID 10/ RAID 1+0 (Stripe of Mirrors)?