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Hardware RAID Levels

The document summarizes different RAID levels including their minimum number of drives required, descriptions, strengths, and weaknesses. RAID 0 provides data striping without redundancy and highest performance but no data protection. RAID 1 uses disk mirroring, providing high redundancy but doubling storage capacity requirements. RAID 5 uses block-level striping with distributed parity, providing good performance and data protection with minimal write performance penalty.

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Hardware RAID Levels

The document summarizes different RAID levels including their minimum number of drives required, descriptions, strengths, and weaknesses. RAID 0 provides data striping without redundancy and highest performance but no data protection. RAID 1 uses disk mirroring, providing high redundancy but doubling storage capacity requirements. RAID 5 uses block-level striping with distributed parity, providing good performance and data protection with minimal write performance penalty.

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9Hardware RAID Levels


RAID Level RAID 0 RAID 1 Minimum Number of Drives 2 2 Description Strengths Weaknesses

Data striping without redundancy Disk mirroring

Highest performance

No data protection; One drive fails, all data is lost High redundancy cost overhead; Because all data is duplicated, twice the storage capacity is required No practical use; Same performance can be achieved by RAID 3 at lower cost

RAID 2

Not used in LAN

RAID 3

Very high performance; Very high data protection; Very minimal penalty on write performance No practical use Previously used for RAM error environments correction (known as Hamming Code ) and in disk drives before the use of embedded error correction Byte-level data striping with Excellent performance for large, dedicated parity drive sequential data requests

RAID 4

3 (Not widely used) Block-level data striping with dedicated parity drive

RAID 5

Block-level data striping with distributed parity

RAID 0/1

Combination of RAID 0 (data striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring) Combination of RAID 1 (mirroring) and RAID 0 (data striping)

RAID 1/0

Not well-suited for transaction-oriented network applications; Single parity drive does not support multiple, simultaneous read and write requests Data striping supports multiple Write requests suffer from same single paritysimultaneous read requests drive bottleneck as RAID 3; RAID 5 offers equal data protection and better performance at same cost Best cost/performance for transaction- Write performance is slower than RAID 0 or oriented networks; Very high RAID 1 performance, very high data protection; Supports multiple simultaneous reads and writes; Can also be optimized for large, sequential requests Highest performance, highest data High redundancy cost overhead; Because all protection (can tolerate multiple drive data is duplicated, twice the storage capacity is failures) required; Requires minimum of four drives Shares the same fault tolerance as RAID 1 (the basic mirror), but High redundancy cost overhead; Because all compliments said fault tolerance with a data is duplicated, twice the storage capacity is striping mechanism that can yield very required; Requires minimum of four drives high read rates

RAID 0

RAID 1

RAID 5

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