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RAID 5:

RAID 5 stripes both data and parity information across three or more drives. It writes

data and parity blocks across all the drives in the array. Fault tolerance is maintained by

ensuring that the parity information for any given block of data is placed on a different

drive from those used to store the data itself.

Features and Benefits

 Drives: Minim um 3.

 Uses: RAID 5 is recommended for transaction processing and general

purpose service.

 Benefits: An ideal combination of good perf ormance, good f ault tolerance,

and high capacity and storage efficiency.

 Drawbacks: Individual block data transfer rate same as a single disk. Write

perf ormance can be CPU intensiv e.

 Fault Tolerance: Yes.

Disk 1

DATA 3

PARI TY

DATA 7

DATA 1

DATA 9

PARI TY

Disk 2

PA R I T Y

DATA 5

DATA 8

DATA 2

PA R I T Y

DATA 11

Disk 3

DATA 4

DATA 6

PA R I T Y

DATA 10

DATA 12

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※ For more detailed setup information, please refer to the Driver CD, or go to

http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_28159.html to download the NVIDIA RAID User’s Guide.