FastTrak SX4300, SX8300 User Manual
• Imaging applications
• Database servers
• General fileserver
RAID 50
Advantages | Disadvantages |
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High Read data transaction rate | Higher disk overhead than RAID 5 |
Medium Write data transaction rate |
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Good aggregate transfer rate |
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High reliability |
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Supports large volume sizes |
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Recommended Applications for RAID 50
•File and Application servers
•Transaction processing
•Office application with many users accessing small files
JBOD
Advantages | Disadvantages |
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Enables you to manage a large number | An alternative to RAID without any |
of disk drives from a single controller | RAID advantages |
The failure of one drive has no effect | Should not be used in mission critical |
upon the data in other disk drives | environments |
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Recommended Applications for JBOD
•Any application requiring multiple disk drives but where read/write speed or
•Applications were
Other Logical Drive Features
Stripe Block Size
The choices are 32K, 64K and 128K. 64K is the default. This selection will directly affect performance. There are two issues to consider when selecting the stripe block size.
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