Sun Microsystems X6270 manual 3lists the RAID drive options

RAID Drive Options

TABLE 6-3lists the RAID drive options.

TABLE 6-3RAID Drive Options

HBA Card Drives Supported RAID Configuration Supported Drive Usage

Sun StorageTek Seagate 73GB SAS

Fujitsu 73GB SAS

Seagate 146GB SAS

Fujitsu 146GB SAS

Hitachi 146GB SAS

Fujitsu 200GB SATA

LSI 3081E	Seagate 73GB SAS
	Fujitsu 73GB SAS
	Seagate 146GB SAS
	Fujitsu 146GB SAS
	Hitachi 146GB SAS
	Fujitsu 200GB SATA

Volume – 1 disk
RAID 0 – stripe – 2 disk minimum	No redundancy
RAID 1 – mirror – 2 disk minimum	50%
RAID 1E – 3 drive minimum	50%
RAID 5 – 3 drive minimum	67–94%
RAID 5EE – 4 drive minimum	50–88%
RAID 50 – 6 drive minimum	67–94%
RAID 6 – 4 drive minimum	50–88%
RAID 60 – 8 drive minimum	50–88%
Spanned Volume – 2 drive minimum	100%
RAID Volume – 4 drive minimum	50-100%
IM (Integrated Mirror array) – 2 disk	Data on Primary disk
minimum, plus up to 2 hot-spare disks	might be merged.
IME (Integrated Mirror Enhanced array) –	All data will be deleted
3 to 8 disks including up to 2 hot-spare	during creation.
disks
IS (Integrated Striping array) – 2 to 8 disks	All data will be deleted
	during creation.

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