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HARD DISK RAID ARRAY
The Image Server 2000 employs an advanced ATA RAID controller to manage an array of
four internal hard disks. This RAID-5 system increases the server’s performance; and by providing
redundant storage, it minimizes the possibility of data loss should one of the drives fail.
The Image Server 2000’s RAID controller brings a high level of reliability to ATA RAID
through a new, switched architecture that exceeds the reliability of SCSI shared-bus storage
systems. The earlier shared-bus architecture of SCSI has inherent performance limitations due to
arbitration latency, since only one drive may use the bus at a time. Further, a single drive failure
can bring the entire storage system down.
By contrast, the Image Server uses a non-blocking switched architecture to isolate the drives
from one another. Any drive failure makes that drive unavailable and the rest of the storage system
remains undisturbed. In addition, the Image Server 2000 uses Advanced Data Protection features,
where all drive commands are checked to ensure that no command corruption has taken place
over the entire data path.
Some of the Image Server RAID implementation features and benefits include:
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Non-blocking switch technology with RAID 5 parity
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On-board processor minimizes host CPU overhead
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Easy-to-configure arrays
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Dynamic sector repair for robust data protection
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Accelerated RAID 5 writes
About RAID 5
A RAID 5 configuration features the data striping of RAID 0 combined with the parity benefits of
RAID 4. Using a simple parity (exclusive OR) function, RAID 5 can tolerate the loss of one drive.
Parity information is distributed across all drives rather than being concentrated on a single disk.
This avoids throughput loss due to contention for the parity drive. Spare drives can be used to
rebuild a failed array.
RAID 5 capacity = size of drive times (number of drives -1). In addition, the array’s storage
efficiency increases with the number of disks; from 66.7 % for 3 drives to 75 % for 4 drives:
storage efficiency = (number of drives -1) X (number of drives).
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