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Product Manual Technology Background
RAID 60 Axles
When you create a RAID 60, you must specify the number of axles. An axle refers to a single RAID 6 logical
drive that is striped with other RAID 6 logical drives to make RAID 60. An axle can have from 4 to 32 physical
drives, de-pending on the number of physical drives in the logical drive.
Components Minimum Maximum
NumberofAxles 2 16
PhysicalDrivesperAxle 4 32
PhysicalDrivesperLogicalDrive 8 256
Recommended Applications for RAID 60:
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AccountingandFinancial
• Databaseservers
• Anyapplicationrequiringveryhighavailability