CHAPTER 2: Getting Started

There are minimum allowable chunk sizes for RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays (RAID 5 arrays have no restrictions):

RAID 0:

Number of Drives

1 or 2

3

4 or more

 

 

 

 

Minimum Chunk Size

256K

128K

64K

 

 

 

 

RAID 1:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Number of Drives

2 or 4

6

8 or more

 

 

 

 

Minimum Chunk Size

256K

128K

64K

 

 

 

 

Stripe size = (chunk size) x (number of non-parity drives in the array).

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