Table of Contents
1
Overview................................................... 1
2
RAID Overview................................................................5
RAID Levels .....................................................................6
Fault Tolerance .................................................................6
Disk Striping.....................................................................7
Disk Mirroring ..................................................................8
Disk Spanning...................................................................9
Parity...............................................................................10
Hot Spares.......................................................................11
Disk Rebuild ...................................................................12
Logical Drive ..................................................................13
Hot Swap ........................................................................13
3
RAID Levels ............................................ 15
RAID 0 ...........................................................................17
RAID 1 ...........................................................................18
RAID 3 ...........................................................................19
RAID 5 ...........................................................................21
RAID 10 .........................................................................22
RAID 30 .........................................................................23
RAID 50 .........................................................................24
4
Features.................................................. 25
Components ....................................................................30
Summary.........................................................................32
Preface
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