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RAID6 (striping with distributed double parities)
Store two different parities on different disks (double parities) to recover from up to two disk
failures.
Figure 1.6
RAID6 concept
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User capacity for each RAID level
User capacity varies according to the RAID level.
Table 1.1
shows the user capacity per disk.
Table 1.2
shows the formula for calculating the user
capacity for each RAID level.
Table 1.1
User capacity per disk
*1:
The above User Capacities are based on a 1MB = 1,024
2
Byte metric.
P2
M, N, O, P
P2
I, J, K, L
A
E
I
M
A
B
C
D
Data writing request
B
F
J
P1
M, N, O, P
C
G
P1
I, J, K, L
D
P1
E, F, G, H
P2
E, F, G, H
N
K
O
P1
A, B, C, D
H
L
P
P2
A, B, C, D
A
B
D
C
Create parity data
HDD0
HDD1
HDD2
HDD3
HDD4
HDD5
Parity for data A to D: Parity1
A, B, C, D
and Parity2
A, B, C, D
Parity for data E to H: Parity1
E, F, G, H
and Parity2
E, F, G, H
Parity for data I to L: Parity1 I, J, K, L and Parity2
I, J, K, L
Parity for data M to P: Parity1
M, N, O, P
and Parity2
M, N, O, P
Product name
User Capacity per Disk (*1)
100GB SSD
92,672MB
200GB SSD
186,624MB
146GB SAS disk
135,936MB
300GB SAS disk
279,040MB
450GB SAS disk
419,072MB
600GB SAS disk
559,104MB
750GB Nearline SAS disk
702,976MB
1TB Nearline SAS disk
937,728MB
2TB Nearline SAS disk
1,866,240MB
