ZyXEL NSA325 User Guide - Page 168
RAID 0, Table 25, DISK 1 - jbod separate
View all ZyXEL NSA325 manuals
Add to My Manuals
Save this manual to your list of manuals |
Page 168 highlights
Chapter 8 Storage it from the 'n' that remain, regardless of which piece is lost. Parity protection is used with striping, and the "n" pieces of data are typically the blocks or bytes distributed across the drives in the array. The parity information can either be stored on a separate, dedicated drive, or be mixed with the data across all the drives in the array. Note: In the following figures, A1, A2, A3 and so on are blocks of data from the A file. Similarly, B1, B2, B3 and C1, C2, C3 ar blocks of data from the B and C files. JBOD JBOD allows you to combine multiple physical disk drives into a single virtual one, so they appear as a single large disk. JBOD can be used to turn multiple different-sized drives into one big drive. For example, JBOD could convert 80 GB and 100 GB drives into one large logical drive of 180 GB. If you have two JBOD volumes (with one disk in each), a failure of one disk (volume) should not affect the other volume (disk). JBOD read performance is not as good as RAID as only one disk can be read at a time and they must be read sequentially. The following figure shows disks in a single JBOD volume. Data is not written across disks but written sequentially to each disk until it's full. Table 25 JBOD A1 B1 A2 B2 A3 B3 A4 B4 DISK 1 DISK 2 RAID 0 RAID 0 spreads data evenly across two or more disks (data striping) with no mirroring nor parity for data redundancy, so if one disk fails the entire volume will be lost. The major benefit of RAID 0 is performance. The following figure shows two disks in a single RAID 0 volume. Data can be written and read across disks simultaneously for faster performance. Table 26 RAID 0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 DISK 1 DISK 2 RAID 0 capacity is the size of the smallest disk multiplied by the number of disks you have configured at RAID 0 on the NSA. For example, if you have two disks of sizes 100 GB and 200 GB respectively in a RAID 0 volume, then the maximum capacity is 200 GB (2 * 100 GB, the smallest disk size) and the remaining space (100 GB) is unused. 168 Media Server User's Guide