Table of Contents
1 Overview ...............................................................1
Documentation .........................................................................3
RAID Benefits..........................................................................5
In This Chapter.........................................................................6
RAID Overview .......................................................................8
Consistency Check ...................................................................8
Fault Tolerance ........................................................................8
Disk Striping ............................................................................9
Disk Spanning ........................................................................10
Disk Mirroring .......................................................................11
Parity ......................................................................................12
Hot Spares ..............................................................................13
Disk Rebuild...........................................................................14
Logical Drive .........................................................................15
Hot Swap................................................................................15
SCSI Drive States...................................................................16
Disk Array Types ...................................................................17
3 RAID Levels ........................................................19
RAID 0...................................................................................21
RAID 1...................................................................................22
RAID 3...................................................................................23
RAID 5...................................................................................25
RAID 10.................................................................................26
RAID 30.................................................................................27
RAID 50.................................................................................28
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