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Product Manual Technology Background
rAid 50 – striPing Of distributed PArity
RAID 50 combines both RAID 5 and RAID 0 features. Data is striped across physical drives as in RAID 0, and
it uses distributed parity as in RAID 5. RAID 50 provides data reliability, good overall performance, and supports
larger volume sizes.
Advantages Disadvantages
•
HighReaddatatransactionrate
• MediumWritedatatransactionrate
• Goodaggregatetransferrate
• Highreliability
• Supportslargevolumesizes
• HigherdiskoverheadthanRAID5
RAID 50 is a combinaon of RAID 5 and RAID 0
Physical Drives
Data
Stripes
Axle 1
Axle 2