Users Guide

No-RAID
In Storage Management, a virtual disk of unknown metadata is considered a No- RAID volume. Storage Management does not support this type of virtual
disks. These must either be deleted or the physical disk must be removed. Storage Management allows Delete and Rename operation on No-RAID volumes.
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records)
RAID 50
Good
Very Good
Fair
Fair
N + 2
(N = at least 4)
Medium-sized transactional or
data-intensive uses
RAID 6
Excellent
Sequential reads: good.
Transactional reads: Very
good
Fair, unless using
write-back cache
Poor
N + 2
(N = at least two
disks)
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Critical information. Databases and
other read-intensive transactional
uses.
RAID 60
Excellent
Very Good
Fair
Poor
X x (N + 2)
(N = at least 2)
Critical information. Medium-sized
transactional or data-intensive
uses.
N = Number of physical disks
X = Number of RAID sets