Biostar Hi-Fi A85X Setup Manual page 27

RAID 5:
RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. It
writes data and parity blocks across all the drives in the array. Fault tolerance is
maintained by ensuring that the parity information for any given block of data is
placed on a different drive from those used to store the data itself.
Features and Benefits
Drives: Minimum 3.
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Uses: RAID 5 is recommended for transaction processing and general
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purpose service.
Benefits: An ideal combination of good performance, good fault tolerance,
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and high capacity and storage efficiency.
Drawbacks: Individual block data transfer rate same as a single disk. Write
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performance can be CPU intensive.
Fault Tolerance: Yes.
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Hi-Fi A85X
Disk 1
DATA 1
DATA 3
PARITY
DATA 7
DATA 9
PARITY
Disk 2
DATA 2
PARITY
DATA 5
DATA 8
PARITY
DATA 11
Disk 3
PARITY
DATA 4
DATA 6
PARITY
DATA 10
DATA 12
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