Figure 8 Example Of A Raid Group; Table 6 Recommended Number Of Drives Per Raid Group - Fujitsu ETERNUS AF250 Design Manual

1. Function
RAID Functions
The same capacity drives and the same kind of drives (SSDs or SED SSDs) must be used to configure a RAID
group.

Figure 8 Example of a RAID Group

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Use drives that have the same capacity to configure RAID groups.
If a RAID group is configured with drives that have different capacities, all the drives in the RAID group are
recognized as having the same capacity as the drive with the smallest capacity in the RAID group and the rest
of the capacity in the drives that have a larger capacity cannot be used.
Table 6 shows the recommended number of drives that configure a RAID group.

Table 6 Recommended Number of Drives per RAID Group

RAID level
RAID1+0
RAID5
RAID5+0
RAID6
RAID6-FR
*1: D = Data, M = Mirror, P = Parity, HS = Hot Spare
Sequential access performance hardly varies with the number of drives for the RAID group.
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Random access performance tends to be proportional to the number of drives for the RAID group.
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Use of higher capacity drives will increase the time required for the drive rebuild process to complete.
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• For RAID5, RAID5+0, and RAID6, ensure that a single RAID group is not being configured with too many
drives.
If the number of drives increases, the time to perform data restoration from parities and Rebuild/Copyback
when a drive fails also increases.
For details on the recommended number of drives, refer to
The RAID level that can be registered in REC Disk Buffers is RAID1+0. The drive configurations that can be
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registered in REC Disk Buffers is 2D+2M or 4D+4M.
For details on the Thin Provisioning function and the RAID configurations that can be registered in Thin Pro-
visioning Pools, refer to
An assigned CM is allocated to each RAID group. For details, refer to
SSD SSD
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RAID group 1
Number of configura-
Recommended number of drives (*1)
tion drives
4 to 32 6(3D+3M), 8(4D+4M), 10(5D+5M)
3 to 16 4(3D+1P), 5(4D+1P), 6(5D+1P), 7(6D+1P), 8(7D+1P)
4(3D+1P) ´ 2, 5(4D+1P) ´ 2, 6(5D+1P) ´ 2
6 to 32
5 to 16 5(3D+2P), 6(4D+2P), 7(5D+2P), 8(6D+2P)
11 to 31 17 ((6D+2P) ´2+1HS)
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Table 6.
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"Assigned CMs" (page
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RAID group 2
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