The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Raid \Raid\ (r[=a]d), n. [Icel. rei[eth] a riding, raid; akin to
   E. road. See Road a way.]
   1. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion
      of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry
      force; a foray.
      [1913 Webster]

            Marauding chief! his sole delight
            The moonlight raid, the morning fight. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
      [1913 Webster]

            There are permanent conquests, temporary
            occupations, and occasional raids.    --H. Spenser.
      [1913 Webster]

   Note: A Scottish word which came into common use in the
         United States during the Civil War, and was soon
         extended in its application.
         [1913 Webster]

   2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests,
      seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police
      upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public
      treasury. [Colloq. U. S.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Raid \Raid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Raided; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Raiding.]
   To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the
   border counties.
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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (17 December 2009):

Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks
RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks

    (RAID.  Originally "Redundant Arrays
   of Inexpensive Disks") A project at the computer science
   department of the University of California at Berkeley,
   under the direction of Professor Katz, in conjunction with
   Professor John Ousterhout and Professor David Patterson.

   The project is reaching its culmination with the
   implementation of a prototype disk array file server with a
   capacity of 40 GBytes and a sustained bandwidth of 80
   MBytes/second.  The server is being interfaced to a 1 Gb/s
   local area network.  A new initiative, which is part of the
   Sequoia 2000 Project, seeks to construct a geographically
   distributed storage system spanning disk arrays and automated
   libraries of optical disks and tapes.  The project will
   extend the interleaved storage techniques so successfully
   applied to disks to tertiary storage devices.  A key element
   of the research will be to develop techniques for managing
   latency in the I/O and network paths.

   The original ("..Inexpensive..") term referred to the 3.5 and
   5.25 inch disks used for the first RAID system but no longer
   applies.

   The following standard RAID specifications exist:

    RAID 0	Non-redundant striped array
    RAID 1	Mirrored arrays
    RAID 2	Parallel array with ECC
    RAID 3	Parallel array with parity
    RAID 4	Striped array with parity
    RAID 5	Striped array with rotating parity


(ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/doc/techreports/berkeley.edu/raid/raidPapers).

(http://HTTP.CS.Berkeley.EDU/projects/parallel/research_summaries/14-Computer-Architecture/).

   ["A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID)",
   "D. A. Patterson and G. Gibson and R. H. Katz", Proc ACM
   SIGMOD Conf, Chicago, IL, Jun 1988].

   ["Introduction to Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
   (RAID)", "D. A. Patterson and P. Chen and G. Gibson and
   R. H. Katz", IEEE COMPCON 89, San Francisco, Feb-Mar 1989].

   (1995-07-20)


V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006):

RAID
       Redundant Array of Independent / Inexpensive Disks (HDD, RAID)


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

104 Moby Thesaurus words for "raid":
   air attack, air raid, air strike, assault, attack, banditry,
   bear raid, blitz, board, boarding, brigandage, brigandism,
   bull raid, bust, corner, corner in, depredate, depredation,
   descend upon, despoil, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation,
   devastate, direption, escalade, expedition, fire raid, fleece,
   forage, foraging, foray, freeboot, freebooting, gut, harass, harry,
   incursion, inroad, inundate, invade, invasion, irruption, loot,
   looting, make a raid, make an inroad, manipulation, maraud,
   marauding, monopoly, onset, onslaught, overrun, overswarm,
   overwhelm, pillage, pillaging, plunder, plundering, pounce upon,
   prey on, raiding, ransack, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage,
   ravagement, ravaging, raven, ravish, ravishment, razzia, reive,
   reiving, rifle, rifling, rigging, rob, sack, sacking, sally,
   saturation raid, scale, scale the walls, scaling, set upon,
   shuttle raid, sortie, spoil, spoiling, spoliate, spoliation, storm,
   strip, surprise attack, sweep, swoop down on, swoop down upon,
   take by storm, wash sale, washing, waste