Adaptec 3405 User Guide - Page 90

Selecting the Best RAID Level, Disk drive usage, read performance

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Appendix B: Understanding RAID ● 90 Selecting the Best RAID Level Use this table to select the RAID levels that are most appropriate for the logical drives on your storage space, based on the number of available disk drives and your requirements for performance and reliability. RAID Level RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 1E RAID 10 RAID 5 RAID 5EE RAID 50 RAID 6 RAID 60 Redundancy No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Disk Drive Usage 100% 50% 50% 50% 67 - 94% 50 - 88% 67 - 94% 50 - 88% 50 - 88% Read Performance Write Performance Built-in Hot Spare No No No No No Yes No No No Minimum Disk Drives 2 2 3 4 3 4 6 4 8 Disk drive usage, read performance, and write performance depend on the number of drives in the logical drive. In general, the more drives, the better the performance.

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Appendix B: Understanding RAID
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Selecting the Best RAID Level
Use this table to select the RAID levels that are most appropriate for the logical drives on your
storage space, based on the number of available disk drives and your requirements for
performance and reliability.
Disk drive usage, read performance, and write performance depend on the number of drives in
the logical drive. In general, the more drives, the better the performance.
RAID Level
Redundancy
Disk Drive
Usage
Read
Performance
Write
Performance
Built-in
Hot Spare
Minimum
Disk
Drives
RAID 0
No
100%
No
2
RAID 1
Yes
50%
No
2
RAID 1E
Yes
50%
No
3
RAID 10
Yes
50%
No
4
RAID 5
Yes
67 – 94%
No
3
RAID 5EE
Yes
50 – 88%
Yes
4
RAID 50
Yes
67 – 94%
No
6
RAID 6
Yes
50 – 88%
No
4
RAID 60
Yes
50 – 88%
No
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