WiebeTech SS8 user manual Appendix B RAID Explained, Way mirroring, RAID 0+1

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Appendix B: RAID Explained

RAID 0

RAID 1

N-way mirroring

RAID 3

RAID 5

RAID 6

Disk striping of any number of drives.

Minimum of 2 disks.

Disk mirroring of 2 disks.

Disk Mirroring of N disks.

Choose N number of disks and set as RAID 1 array.

Striping with parity on the dedicated disk. Minimum of 3 disks.

Striping with interspersed parity over all member disks. Minimum of 3 disks.

2-dimensional parity protection over all member disks. Minimum of 4 disks.

RAID 0+1	Mirroring of RAID 0 volumes.
	Minimum of 4 disks and array needs to consist of even number of disks.
RAID 10	Striping over RAID 1 volumes.
	Minimum of 4 disks and array needs to consist of even number of disks.
RAID 30	Striping over RAID 3 volumes.
	Minimum of 6 disks. With 6 disks, two arrays of RAID 3 are striped into one
	array as RAID 30.
RAID 50	Striping over RAID 5 volumes.
	Minimum of 6 disks. With 6 disks, two arrays of RAID 5 are striped into one
	array as RAID 50.
RAID 60	Striping over RAID 6 volumes.
	Minimum of 8 disks. With 8 disks, two arrays of RAID 6 are striped into one
	array as RAID 60.
JBOD	The abbreviation of “Just a Bunch Of Disks”. JBOD will set the disks as
	individual disks.

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