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RAID 6 - Distributed Parity and Disk Striping, RAID 5
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Uses Strong Points Weak Points Drives Table 3. RAID 5 Overview Provides high data throughput, especially for large files. Use RAID 5 for transaction processing applications because each drive can read and write independently. If a drive fails, the RAID controller uses the parity drive to recreate all missing information. Use also for office automation and online customer service that requires fault tolerance. Use for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates. Provides data redundancy, high read rates, and good performance in most environments. Provides redundancy with lowest loss of capacity. Not well suited to tasks requiring lot of writes. Suffers more impact if no cache is used (clustering). If a drive is being rebuilt, disk drive performance is reduced. Environments with few processes do not perform as well because the RAID overhead is not offset by the performance gains in handling simultaneous processes. 3 to 32 RAID 5 RAID Adapter ABCDEF Available Capacity N=# disks C = Disk Capacity Available Capacity = (N*C)(N-1) /N A B P1 C P2 D P3 E F Data Striping & Striped Parity RAID 5 Figure 3. RAID 5 - Data Striping with Striped Parity RAID 6 - Distributed Parity and Disk Striping RAID 6 is similar to RAID 5 (disk striping and parity), but instead of one parity block per stripe, there are two. With two independent parity blocks, RAID 6 can survive the loss of two disks in a virtual disk without losing data. Table 4 provides an overview of RAID 6. Uses Table 4. RAID 6 Overview Provides a high level of data protection through the use of a second parity block in each stripe. Use RAID 6 for data that requires a high level of protection from loss. In the case of a failure of one drive or two drives in a virtual disk, the RAID controller uses the parity blocks to recreate the missing information. If two drives in a RAID 6 virtual disk fail, two drive rebuilds are required, one for each drive. These rebuilds do not occur at the same time. The controller rebuilds one failed drive at a time. Use for office automation and online customer service that requires fault tolerance. Use for any application that has high read request rates but low write request rates. 12 Intel® RAID Software User's Guide