Biostar A770 A2+ Setup Manual page 25

RAID 1+0:
RAID 1 drives can be stripped using RAID 0 techniques. Resulting in a RAID 1+0
solution for improved resiliency, performance and rebuild performance.
Features and Benefits
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Drives: Minimum 4, and maximum is 6 or 8, depending on the platform.
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Benefits: Optimizes for both fault tolerance and perf ormance, allowing for
automatic redundancy. May be simultaneously used with other RAID lev els
in an array, and allows for spare disks.
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Drawbacks: Requires twice the available disk space f or data redundancy,
the same as RAID level 1.
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Fault Tolerance: Yes.
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Block 3
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Block 5 Block 6
A770 A2+/A740X A2+
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