Chapter 2: Getting Started
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RAID 30
Advantages
Disadvantages
High Read data transfer rate
High reliability
Supports large volume sizes
Higher disk overhead than RAID 3
Recommended Applications for RAID 30
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Image Editing
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Video streaming
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Any application requiring high availability and high speed
RAID 50
Characteristics/Advantages Disadvantages
High Read data transaction rate
Medium Write data transaction rate
Good aggregate transfer rate
High reliability
Supports large volume sizes
Higher disk overhead than RAID 5
Recommended Applications for RAID 50
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File and Application servers
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Transaction processing
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Office application with many users accessing small files
JBOD
Characteristics/Advantages Disadvantages
Uses 100% capacity of all hard drives
The failure of one drive will result in all data
on that drive being lost
Should not be used in mission critical
environments
Recommended Applications for JBOD
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File archiving
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General fileserver