MS-7374 Mainboard
Introduction
System Requirement
Operating System Support
NVRAID supports the following operating systems:
Windows XP, W indows Vista
RAID Arrays
NVRAID supports the following types of RAID arrays described in this section: RAID 0: RAID 0 defines a disk striping scheme that improves the disk read and write times for many applications.
RAID 1: RAID 1 defines techniques for mirroring data.
RAID 0+1: RAID 0+1 combines the techniques used in RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays.
RAID 5: RAID 5 defines techniques for parity data.
Spanning (JBOD): JBOD provides a method for combining drives of different sizes into one large disk
Summary of RAID Configurations
Array | Uses | Advantages | Drawbacks | # Hard | Fault |
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RAID 0 | High data throughput. | No fault tolerance. | multiple | None | |
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RAID 1 | Small databases or any | 100% data | Requires 2 drives for | 2 | Yes |
| other small capacity | redundancy. | the storage space of 1 |
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RAID 0+1 | Critical data requiring | Optimized for both | Requires 2 drives for | 4+ | Yes |
| high performance. | 100% data | the storage space of 1 |
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| Allows spare disks. |
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RAID 5 | Critical data and | Fault tolerance and | Decreased write | 3+ | Yes |
| reasonable level of | better utilization of | performance due to |
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| performance. | disk space. | parity calculations. |
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JBOD | Combining odd size | Combines and uses | Decreases | Multiple | No |
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| optimize drives for |
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