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Sunday, June 26, 2005

Volume Manager RAID Levels

RAID is an acronym for Redundant Array of Independent Disks

RAID-0 – Striping (disk space is striped across two or more disks)

RAID-1 – Mirroring (data from one plex is duplicated on another plex to provide redundancy)

RAID-5 – Parity (RAID-5 is a striped layout that also includes the calculation of parity information, and the striping of that parity information across the disks. If a disk fails, the parity is used to reconstruct the missing data.)

RAID-0+1 – Mirror-stripe (disks are first striped (or plain concat) and then mirrored)

RAID-1+0 – Stripe-mirror (disks are first mirrored and then striped (or plain concat))