1.6.6.4 RAID-2 - Bit Interleave Data Striping with Hamming Code
This type of array design is another form of data striping: it spreads the data across the disks one bit or one byte at a time in parallel. This is called bit (or byte) interleaving.
Thus, if there were five disks in the array, a sector on the first drive will contain bits 0 and 5, and so on of the data block; the same sector of the second drive will contain bits 1 and 6, and so on as shown in Figure 16.
Generating check bits by byte is probably the process used most frequently. For example, if data were grouped into bytes, 11 drives in total would be required, 8 for data and 3 for the check bits. An
Note: For clarity, the Hamming Code drives are not shown in Figure 16.
An array of this design will perform optimally when large data transfers are being performed. The host will see the array as one logical drive. The data transfer rate, however, will be the product of the number of drives in the array and the transfer rate of the individual drives.
This design is unable to handle multiple, simultaneous small requests for data, unlike the previous design; so, it is unlikely to satisfy the requirements for a transaction processing system that needs a high transaction rate.
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Figure 16. RAID-2 (Bit Interleave Data Striping with Hamming Code)
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