RAID 3 and 5 Schemes

You can use RAID 3 or 5 with or without a drive module designated as a hot spare on each controller, or you can create four RAID sets and use Disk Utility to stripe or mirror the sets on the same or separate controllers.

RAID 3 or 5

Appears

as

RAID 3 or 5

RAID 3 or 5

Disk 1

Disk 2

RAID 3 or 5

 

 

 

 

Appears

 

 

 

as

 

RAID 3 or 5

RAID 3 or 5

Disk 1

Disk 2

Hot spare

Hot spare

 

 

RAID 1 and RAID 3 or 5

Mirrors RAID1 Hot spare RAID 0 or

RAID 3 or 5

Appears

Disk 1

 

Disk 2

as

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disk 3

 

Disk 4

Planning RAID Storage for the Xserve RAID System

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Apple NMB-003 manual RAID 1 and RAID 3 or