4-40 Configuring Your Server
RAID Levels
Characteristics of RAID Levels
The table below lists the characteristics of the RAID levels.
Level
Function
RAID0
Striping
RAID1
Mirroring
RAID10
Striping of RAID1
Redundancy
Characteristics
No
•
Data read/write at the highest rate
•
Largest capacity
•
Capacity: (capacity of single hard disk
drive) × (number of hard disk drives)
Yes
•
Two hard disk drives required
•
Capacity: capacity of single hard disk
drive
Yes
•
Four or more hard disk drives required
•
Capacity: (capacity of single hard disk
drive) × ((number of hard disk drives) -
2)