Raid 50 - Promise VTRAK M610i Product Manual

VTrak M610i, M310i, M210i Product Manual
RAID 10
Implemented as a mirrored disk array
whose segments are RAID 0 disk
arrays
High I/O rates are achieved thanks to
multiple stripe segments
Recommended Applications for RAID 10
• Imaging applications
• Database servers
• General fileserver

RAID 50

High Read data transaction rate
Medium Write data transaction rate
Good aggregate transfer rate
High reliability
Supports large volume sizes
Recommended Applications for RAID 50
• File and Application servers
• Transaction processing
• Office application with many users accessing small files
Advantages
Advantages
Disadvantages
Very high disk overhead - uses only
50% of total capacity
Disadvantages
Higher disk overhead than RAID 5
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