Biostar A780L3C2 Setup Manual page 29

RAID 10:
Features and Benefits
Drives: Minimum 4, and maximum is 6 or 8, depending on the platform.
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Benefits: Optimizes for both fault tolerance and performance, allowing for automatic
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redundancy. May be simultaneously used with other RAID levels in an array, and
allows for spare disks.
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Drawbacks: Requires twice the available disk space for data redundancy, the same
as RAID level 1.
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Fault Tolerance: Yes.
A780L3C2
RAID 10 combines the advantages (and
disadvantages) of RAID 0 and RAID 1 in
one single system. It provides security
by mirroring all data on a secondary set
of disks (disk 3 and 4 in the drawing
below) while using striping across each
set of disks to speed up data transfers.
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