User Manual - A3661-90001

RAID General Information 1-23
Product Description
Caution Disk modules having different storage capacities or different model or part numbers
should not be bound into the same RAID group because performance can be
affected.
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Table 1-3 Disk Striping, Hardware Mirroring, and Parity by RAID Level
RAID level Disk Striping
Hardware
Mirroring Parity
RAID-5 Yes No Yes
RAID-3 Yes No Yes
RAID-1/0 Yes Yes No
RAID-1 No Yes No