Stripe Size; Disk Usage - Thecus N16000 Series User Manual

Stripe Size

The length of the data segments being written across multiple hard disks. Data is
written in stripes across the multiple hard disks of a RAID. Since multiple disks are
accessed at the same time, disk striping enhances performance. The stripes can
vary in size.

Disk Usage

When all disks are of the same size, and used in RAID, Thecus IP storage disk usage
percentage is listed below:
RAID Level
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 5
RAID 6
RAID 10
RAID 50
RAID 60
JBOD
n：HDD number
128
Percentage Used
100%
1/n x 100%
(n-1)/n x 100%
(n-2)/n x 100%
50%
(n-1)/n x 100%
(n-2)/n x 100%
100%