RS16 FS – Manual v.6.1A
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1.3 RAID levels
RAID 0
Disk striping. RAID 0 needs at least one hard drive.
RAID 1
Disk mirroring over two disks. RAID 1 needs at least two hard
drives.
N-way
mirror
Extension to RAID 1 level. It has N copies of the disk.
RAID 3
Striping with parity on the dedicated disk. RAID 3 needs at
least three hard drives.
RAID 5
Striping with interspersed parity over the member disks. RAID
3 needs at least three hard drives.
RAID 6
2-dimensional parity protection over the member disks. RAID
6 needs at least four hard drives.
RAID 0+1
Mirroring of the member RAID 0 volumes. RAID 0+1 needs at
least four hard drives.
RAID 10
Striping over the member RAID 1 volumes. RAID 10 needs at
least four hard drives.
RAID 30
Striping over the member RAID 3 volumes. RAID 30 needs at
least six hard drives.
RAID 50
Striping over the member RAID 5 volumes. RAID 50 needs at
least six hard drives.
RAID 60
Striping over the member RAID 6 volumes. RAID 60 needs at
least eight hard drives.
JBOD
The abbreviation of
“J
ust a
B
unch
O
f
D
isks
”
. JBOD needs at
least one hard drive.
