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Appendix B: RAID Explained
RAID 0
RAID 1
N-way mirroring
RAID 3
RAID 5
RAID 6
Disk striping of any number of drives.
Minimum of 2 disks.
Disk mirroring of 2 disks.
Disk Mirroring of N disks.
Choose N number of disks and set as RAID 1 array.
Striping with parity on the dedicated disk. Minimum of 3 disks.
Striping with interspersed parity over all member disks. Minimum of 3 disks.
RAID 0+1 | Mirroring of RAID 0 volumes. |
| Minimum of 4 disks and array needs to consist of even number of disks. |
RAID 10 | Striping over RAID 1 volumes. |
| Minimum of 4 disks and array needs to consist of even number of disks. |
RAID 30 | Striping over RAID 3 volumes. |
| Minimum of 6 disks. With 6 disks, two arrays of RAID 3 are striped into one |
| array as RAID 30. |
RAID 50 | Striping over RAID 5 volumes. |
| Minimum of 6 disks. With 6 disks, two arrays of RAID 5 are striped into one |
| array as RAID 50. |
RAID 60 | Striping over RAID 6 volumes. |
| Minimum of 8 disks. With 8 disks, two arrays of RAID 6 are striped into one |
| array as RAID 60. |
JBOD | The abbreviation of “Just a Bunch Of Disks”. JBOD will set the disks as |
| individual disks. |
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