Promise Technology SX4300, SX8300 user manual Jbod

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RAID 5

Advantages

Disadvantages

 

 

High Read data transaction rate

Disk failure has a medium impact on

Medium Write data transaction rate

throughput

 

Good aggregate transfer rate

 

 

 

Recommended Applications for RAID 5

File and Application servers

WWW, E-mail, and News servers

Intranet servers

Most versatile RAID level

RAID 10

Advantages

Disadvantages

Implemented as a mirrored logical drive Very high disk overhead - uses only

whose segments are RAID 0 logical 50% of total capacity drives

High I/O rates are achieved thanks to multiple stripe segments

Recommended Applications for RAID 10

Imaging applications

Database servers

General fileserver

JBOD

Advantages

Disadvantages

 

 

Enables you to manage a large number

An alternative to RAID without any

of disk drives from a single controller

RAID advantages

The failure of one drive has no effect

Should not be used in mission critical

upon the data in other disk drives

environments

 

 

Recommended Applications for JBOD

Any application requiring multiple disk drives but where read/write speed or fault-tolerance are not important

Applications were low-cost operation critical

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