Raid 5Ee Logical Drives - Adaptec RAID 2130SLP User Manual

RAID 5EE Logical Drives

A RAID 5EE logical drive—also referred to as a hot space—is similar to a RAID 5 logical drive
except that it includes a distributed spare drive and must be built from a minimum of four disk
drives. The maximum number of disk drives is sixteen.
Unlike a hot spare (see
the stored data and parity data, and can't be shared with other logical disk drives. A distributed
spare improves the speed at which the logical drive is rebuilt following a disk drive failure.
A RAID 5EE logical drive protects your data and increases read and write speeds. However,
capacity is reduced by two disk drives' worth of space, which is for parity data and spare data.
In this example, S represents the distributed spare, P represents the distributed parity data.
Disk Drive 1
Disk Drive 2
Disk Drive 3
Disk Drive 4
Disk Drives in Logical Drive
page 74), a distributed spare is striped evenly across the disk drives with
Drive Segment Size
250 GB
(Smallest Disk Drive)
250 GB
Disk Drive 1
Disk Drive 2
400 GB
Disk Drive 3
Disk Drive 4
400 GB
Selecting the Best RAID Level
1 S ... P
2 P ... 449
S 3 ... S
Unused Space = 150 GB
P 4 ... 500
Unused Space = 150 GB
RAID 5EE
= 750 GB plus Parity and Spare
Logical Drive
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