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Choosing a RAID Level, RAID 0

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Chapter 6: Technology Background Choosing a RAID Level There are several issues to consider when choosing the RAID Level for your logical drive. The following discussion summarizes some advantages, disadvantages and applications for each choice. RAID 0 Advantages Disadvantages Implements a striped disk logical drive, Not a true RAID because it is not fault- the data is broken down into blocks and tolerant each block is written to a separate disk The failure of just one drive will result in drive all data in an logical drive being lost I/O performance is greatly improved by Should not be used in mission critical spreading the I/O load across many environments channels and drives No parity calculation overhead is involved Recommended Applications for RAID 0 • Image Editing • Pre-Press Applications • Any application requiring high bandwidth RAID 1 Advantages Simplest RAID storage subsystem design Can increase read performance by processing data requests in parallel since the same data resides on two different drives Disadvantages Very high disk overhead - uses only 50% of total capacity Recommended Applications for RAID 1 • Accounting • Payroll • Financial • Any application requiring very high availability 95

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Chapter 6: Technology Background
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Choosing a RAID Level
There are several issues to consider when choosing the RAID Level for your
logical drive. The following discussion summarizes some advantages,
disadvantages and applications for each choice.
RAID 0
Recommended Applications for RAID 0
Image Editing
Pre-Press Applications
Any application requiring high bandwidth
RAID 1
Recommended Applications for RAID 1
Accounting
Payroll
Financial
Any application requiring very high availability
Advantages
Disadvantages
Implements a striped disk logical drive,
the data is broken down into blocks and
each block is written to a separate disk
drive
I/O performance is greatly improved by
spreading the I/O load across many
channels and drives
No parity calculation overhead is
involved
Not a true RAID because it is not fault-
tolerant
The failure of just one drive will result in
all data in an logical drive being lost
Should not be used in mission critical
environments
Advantages
Disadvantages
Simplest RAID storage subsystem
design
Can increase read performance by
processing data requests in parallel
since the same data resides on two
different drives
Very high disk overhead - uses only
50% of total capacity