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Introduction
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Dual-level RAID
achieves a balance between the increased data availability
inherent in RAID 1 and RAID 5 and the increased read performance inherent in
disk striping (RAID 0). These arrays are sometimes referred to as
RAID 0+1
or
RAID 10 and RAID 0+5 or RAID 50.
In summary:
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RAID 0 is the fastest and most efficient array type but offers no fault-
tolerance. RAID 0 requires a minimum of two drives.
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RAID 1 is the best choice for performance-critical, fault-tolerant
environments. RAID 1 is the only choice for fault-tolerance if no more than
two drives are used.
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RAID 3 can be used to speed up data transfer and provide fault-tolerance
in single-user environments that access long sequential records. However,
RAID 3 does not allow overlapping of multiple I/O operations and requires
synchronized-spindle drives to avoid performance degradation with short
records. RAID 5 with a small stripe size offers similar performance.
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RAID 5 combines efficient, fault-tolerant data storage with good
performance characteristics. However, write performance and performance
during drive failure is slower than with RAID 1. Rebuild operations also
require more time than with RAID 1 because parity information is also
reconstructed. At least three drives are required for RAID 5 arrays.