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Physical disk
configuration Read performance Write performance
Tolerance for single
disk module failure?
RAID-5 group with 5
disk modules
Up to 5.0 with
5-module group
Up to 1.25 with
5-module group
Yes
RAID-1 mirrored pair 1.0 1.0 Yes
RAID-1/0 group with 6
modules
Up to 3.0 with
6-module group
Up to 3.0 with
6-module group
Yes
RAID-1/0 group with 10
modules
Up to 5.0 with
10-module group
Up to 5.0 with
10-module group
Yes