Adaptec 2005S User Guide - Page 169
RAID 5 Logical Drives
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Appendix D: Understanding RAID ● 168 RAID 5 Logical Drives A RAID 5 logical drive is built from a minimum of three and a maximum of sixteen disk drives, and uses data striping and parity (see below) data to provide redundancy. Parity data provides data protection, and striping improves performance. Parity data is an error-correcting redundancy that's used to re-create data if a disk drive fails. In RAID 5 logical drives, parity data (represented by Ps in the example below) is striped evenly across the disk drives with the stored data. Drive segment size is limited to the size of the smallest disk drive in the logical drive. For instance, a logical drive with two 250 GB disk drives and two 400 GB disk drives can contain 750 GB of stored data and 250 GB of parity data, as shown below. Disk Drive 1 250 GB Drive Segment Size (Smallest Disk Drive) Disk Drive 2 250 GB Disk Drive 1 1 4 ... P Disk Drive 3 400 GB Disk Drive 4 400 GB Disk Drives in Logical Drive Disk Drive 2 2 5 ... 748 Disk Drive 3 3 P ... 749 Not Used Unused Space: 150 GB Disk Drive 4 P 6 ... 750 Not Used Unused Space: 150 GB RAID 5 Logical Drive = 750 GB plus Parity In the example above, P represents the distributed parity data.
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