Compaq ProLiant CL380 New Advanced RAID Level for Today's Larger Storage Capac - Page 6

New Advanced RAID Level for Today's Larger Storage Capacities: 6 When customers should use RAID ADG Advanced Data Guarding is ideal for applications requiring larger storage volumes. RAID ADG is best implemented when customers have the following needs: ✔ For greater capacity utilization ✔ For mission-critical data ✔ When large logical drives are required ✔ When better capacity utilization than RAID 1 is needed ✔ When higher fault tolerance than RAID 1 or RAID 5 is necessary In addition, customers can migrate from their existing RAID levels to RAID ADG and from RAID ADG to other RAID levels as well. Note: If a RAID volume does not have available capacity equal to one disk drive, it may require adding a disk drive and expanding the RAID volume. Refer to the Compaq User Manual for more detailed information. Summary With RAID ADG, the new Compaq exclusive and advanced RAID level, customers are provided with a capacity utilization that is ideal for large capacity logical drives. Every Compaq server customer implementing RAID volumes with 8 or more hard disk drives should consider this new RAID level. This innovative Compaq solution for today's large storage capacities is not provided by any other competitor. Note: RAID ADG is standard with the Compaq Smart Array 5304/128 and will be sold as an option with Smart Array models 5302/64 and 5302/32. RAID ADG will be available in 1Q/2001. 13JE-1000A-WWEN