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FastTrak SX4300, SX8300 User Manual
JBOD – Single Drive
An alternative to RAID, JBOD capacity is equal to the size of the disk drive itself.
JBOD appears in the User Interface as one individual drive.
There are no performance or
Disk Drive
Choosing a RAID Level
There are several issues to consider when choosing the RAID Level for your FastTrak logical drive. The following discussion summarizes some advantages, disadvantages and applications for each choice.
RAID 0
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Implements a striped disk logical drive, | Not a true RAID because it is not fault- | |
the data is broken down into blocks and | tolerant | |
each block is written to a separate disk | The failure of just one drive will result in | |
drive | all data in an logical drive being lost | |
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I/O performance is greatly improved by | Should not be used in mission critical | |
spreading the I/O load across many | environments | |
channels and drives | ||
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No parity calculation overhead is |
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involved |
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Recommended Applications for RAID 0
•Image Editing
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•Any application requiring high bandwidth
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