PLANET NAS-7400 User Manual
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Any application requiring very high availability
RAID 5
Advantages
Disadvantages
High Read data transaction rate
Medium Write data transaction rate
Good aggregate transfer rate
Most versatile RAID level
Disk failure has a medium
impact on throughput
Recommended applications for RAID 5:
File and Application servers
WWW, E-mail, and News servers
Intranet servers
RAID 10
Advantages
Disadvantages
Implemented as a mirrored RAID
Volume whose segments are RAID 0
RAID Volumes
High I/O rates are achieved thanks to
multiple stripe segments
Very high disk overhead –
uses only 50% of total
capacity
Recommended applications for RAID 10:
Imaging applications
Database servers
General fileserver
7.2.1 TB Limitation
In order to be compatible with different Operating Systems and the files
systems that each one supports, the largest RAID Volume you can create on
NAS-7400 is 2 TB.