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Appendix B: RAID Basics

Overview

A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is an array of several hard disks

that provide data security and high performance. A RAID system accesses several

hard disks simultaneously, which improves I/O performance over a single hard disk.

Data security is enhanced by a RAID, since data loss due to a hard disk failure is

minimized by regenerating redundant data from the other RAID hard disks.

Benefits

RAID improves I/O performance, and increases data security through fault

tolerance and redundant data storage.

Improved Performance

RAID provides access to several hard disk drives simultaneously, which greatly

increases I/O performance.

Data Security

Hard disk drive failure unfortunately is a common occurrence. A RAID helps prevent

against the loss of data due to hard disk failure. A RAID offers additional hard disk

drives that can avert data loss from a hard disk drive failure. If a hard drive fails, the

RAID volume can regenerate data from the data and parity stored on its other hard

disk drives.

RAID Levels

The Thecus IP storage supports standard RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD. You

choose a RAID level when you create a system volume. The factors for selecting a

RAID level are:

 Your requirements for performance

 Your need for data security

 Number of hard disk drives in the system, capacity of hard disk drives in the

system

The following is a description of each RAID level:

RAID 0

RAID 0 is best suited for applications that need high bandwidth but do not require a

high level of data security. The RAID 0 level provides the best performance of all the

RAID levels, but it does not provide data redundancy.

RAID 0 uses disk striping and breaking up data into blocks to write across all hard

drives in the volume. The system can then use multiple hard drives for faster read

and write. The stripe size parameter that was set when the RAID was created

determines the size of each block. No parity calculations complicate the write

operation.

RAID 1

RAID 1 mirrors all data from one hard disk drive to a second one hard disk drive,

thus providing complete data redundancy. However, the cost of data storage

capacity is doubled.

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