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CHAPTER 3 : Setting Up and Getting Started
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RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across
multiple drives. Striping across drives improves overall
performance, and the parity information provides data
protection. Because of the error-correction capabilities, if a
drive fails, the data can be quickly and automatically fixed.
RAID 10 (also called RAID 1+0 or RAID 1&0 ) contains sets of
RAID 1 mirrors acting as drives within a RAID 0 striping array.
With this setup, the array could survive one drive failure in
each mirror array.
Drawback
A RAID 5 array is treated as one drive with the capacity of all
but one of the drives added together.
RAID 10 treats the entire array as a single drive with the
storage capacity of the smallest drive × 2. So if you have four
drives (350 GB, 300 GB, 250 GB, and 200 GB) in a RAID 10
array, your computer recognizes a single drive with 400 GB
total capacity.
A1
B1
CP A2
BP
C1 AP
B2
C2
RAID 5
A
C
E A
C
E B
D
F B
D
F
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1
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