Adaptec 44300 User Guide - Page 66
Selecting the Best RAID Level, storage space
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Appendix B: Understanding RAID ● 66 Drive segment size is limited to the size of the smallest disk drive in the array. For instance, an array with two 250 GB disk drives and two 400 GB disk drives can create two mirrored drive segments of 250 GB, for a total of 500 GB for the array, as shown in the following figure. Disk Drive 1 250 GB Drive Segment Size (Smallest Disk Drive) Disk Drive 2 250 GB Disk Drive 3 400 GB Disk Drive 4 400 GB Disk Drives in Logical Drive Disk Drive 1 1 3 ... 499 Disk Drive 2 2 500 4 ... Disk Drive 3 Disk Drive 4 1 499 3 ... Not Used Unused Space: 150 GB 2 500 4 ... Not Used Unused Space: 150 GB RAID 10 Logical Drive = 500 GB 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 10 Redundancy No Yes Yes Disk Drive Usage 100% 50% 50% Read Write Built-in Performance Performance Hot Spare www www No ww ww No ww ww No Minimum Disk Drives 2 2 4 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.