Chapter #11 - Appendix - Disk Array Raid Concepts; Appendix - Disk Array Raid Concepts; Chapter Outline - Maxtor NAS 6000 Administration Manual

Chapter #11 - Appendix - Disk

Chapter Outline

Introduction to RAID
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RAID basic comparison
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RAID benefits
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n RAID limitations
RAID verses performance
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Primary RAID concepts
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Striping
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Fault tolerance
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Array
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Mirroring
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Hot Standby
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Hot Swappable
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Spanning
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Parity checking
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RAID array type definitions
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RAID 0
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RADI 1
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RAID 0+1
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RAID 5
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JBOD
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RAID Array comparisons: performance, data capacity, access speed.
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Considerations for creating different types of arrays:
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RAID 0
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RAID 1
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RAID 0+1
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RAID 5
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JBOD
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