Glossary

Partition

An array virtual disk made up of logical disks rather than

 

physical ones. Also called logical volume.

Physical Drive

A physical array (or drive) is a collection of physical disks

 

governed by the RAID management software. A physical

 

drive appears to the host computer as one or more logical

 

drives.

RAID

(Redundant Array of Independent Disks) An approach to

 

using multiple low cost drives as a group to improve

 

performance, yet also provide a degree of redundancy that

 

makes data loss remote.

RAID 0

Block “striping” is provided, yielding higher performance

 

than is possible with individual drives. This level does not

 

provide any redundancy.

RAID 1

Drives are paired and mirrored. All data is 100%

 

duplicated on an equivalent drive.

RAID 10

RAID 10 is a combination of RAID levels 0 and 1. The

 

data is striped across disks as in RAID 0. Each disk has a

 

mirror disk, as in RAID 1.

RAID 3

Data is striped across several physical drives. For data

 

redundancy one drive is encoded with rotated XOR

 

redundancy.

RAID 30

Data striping of two or more RAID 3 arrays. RAID level

 

30 is a combination of 0 and 3.

RAID 5

Data is striped across several physical drives. For data

 

redundancy drives are encoded with rotated XOR

 

redundancy.

RAID 50

RAID level 50 is a combination of RAID level 0 and 5.

AM RAID Controller

This refers to the controller card that routes data to

 

and/or from the CPU. Disk array controllers perform all

 

RAID algorithms onboard the controller.

Rebuild

The regeneration of all data from a failed disk in a RAID

 

level 1, 3, 5, or 6 array to a replacement disk. A disk

 

rebuild normally occurs without interruption of

 

application access to data stored on the array virtual disk.

Rotated XOR

This term (also known as “parity”) refers to a method of

Redundancy

providing complete data redundancy while requiring only

 

a fraction of the storage capacity for redundancy. In a

 

system configured under RAID 3 and 5, all data and

 

parity blocks are divided between the drives in such a way

 

that if any single drive is removed (or fails), the data on it

 

can be reconstructed using the data on the remaining

 

drives. (XOR refers to the Boolean “Exclusive-OR”

 

operator.)

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CR8e, Disk Array Enclosure specifications

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