Raid 0 Group (Nonredundant Array); Individual Disk Unit - EMC CX700 Planning Manual

RAID Types and Trade-offs

RAID 0 Group (Nonredundant Array)

Individual Disk Unit

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CAUTION
!
A RAID 0 Group provides no protection for your data. EMC does
not recommend using a RAID 0 Group unless you have some way
of protecting your data, such as software mirroring.
A RAID 0 Group consists of three to a maximum of sixteen disks. A
RAID 0 Group uses disk striping, in which the hardware writes to or
reads from multiple disks simultaneously. You can create up to 128
LUNs in any RAID 0 Group.
Unlike the other RAID levels, with RAID 0 the hardware does not
maintain parity information on any disk; this type of group has no
inherent data redundancy. As a result, if any failure (including an
unrecoverable read error) occurs on a disk in the LUN, the
information on the LUN is lost.
RAID 0 offers enhanced performance through simultaneous I/O to
different disks. A desirable alternative to RAID 0 is RAID 1/0, which
does protect your data.
An individual disk unit is a disk bound to be independent of any
other disk in the cabinet. An individual unit has no inherent high
availability, but you can make it highly available by using software
mirroring with another individual unit. You can create one LUN per
individual disk unit. If you want to apportion the disk space, you can
do so using partitions, file systems, or user directories.