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Choosing a RAID Level
There are several issues to consider when choosing the RAID Level for your unit array. Appendix B: Technology
Background gives some technical insight regarding each RAID choice and the following discussion summarizes some
advantages, disadvantages and applications for each choice.
RAID 0
Advantages
Disadvantages
Implements a striped disk array, the data is
broken down into blocks and each block is
written to a separate disk drive
I/O performance is greatly improved by
spreading the I/O load across many
channels and drives
No parity calculation overhead is involved
Not a true RAID because it is not fault-
tolerant
The failure of just one drive will result in all
data in an array being lost
Should not be used in mission critical
environments
Recommended Applications for RAID 0
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Image Editing
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Pre-Press Applications
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Any application requiring high bandwidth
RAID 1
Advantages
Disadvantages
Simplest RAID storage subsystem design
Can increase read performance by
processing data requests in parallel since
the same data resides on two different
drives
High disk overhead - uses only 50% of
total capacity
Recommended Applications for RAID 1
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Accounting
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Payroll
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Financial
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Any application requiring very high availability
RAID 3
Advantages
Disadvantages
High Read data transfer rate
Disk failure has an insignificant impact on
throughput
Parity drive can become bottleneck if a lot
of data is being written to the array
Recommended Applications for RAID 3
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Image Editing
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Prepress Applications
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Any application requiring high throughput