Figure 3 Raid1+0 Concept; Figure 4 Raid5 Concept - Fujitsu ETERNUS DX500 S4/DX600 S4 Design Manual

2. Basic Functions
RAID Functions
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RAID1+0 (Striping of Pairs of Drives for Mirroring)
RAID1+0 combines the high I/O performance of RAID0 (striping) with the reliability of RAID1 (mirroring).

Figure 3 RAID1+0 Concept

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Mirroring
Drive#0
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RAID5 (Striping with Distributed Parity)
Data is divided into blocks and allocated across multiple drives together with parity information created from
the data in order to ensure the redundancy of the data.

Figure 4 RAID5 Concept

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Mirroring
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Drive#4
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Parity for data E to H: P E, F, G, H
Parity for data I to L: P I, J, K, L
Parity for data M to P: P M, N, O, P
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Mirroring
Drive#2
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Drive#3
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Drive#6
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