Adaptec 2410SA User Guide - Page 140
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Supported RAID Types RAID 5 This RAID type requires at least three drives. Like RAID 0, data is striped across the drives. However, in RAID 5, parity is stored separately from data, and occupies the equivalent of one drive. The controller generates parity every time data is written to the array, and it is distributed in stripes across all the drives. In the event of a drive failure, the contents of the failed drive can be rebuilt from the data and parity on the remaining drives. RAID 5 Drive Data 0 Data 3 Data 6 Parity 3 Drive Data 1 Data 4 Parity 2 Data 9 Drive Data 2 Parity 1 Data 7 Data 10 Drive Parity 0 Data 5 Data 8 Data 11 Using parity minimizes the storage cost of redundancy. Because only one drive is used to store parity, a three-drive array, which is the worst case, uses only one third of the total capacity for redundancy. In larger arrays, the storage cost of redundancy decreases proportionately RAID 5 write performance is limited by the need to generate parity data for every write. Read performance is good because the load is spread equally across all the drives. D-3