By: Thomas Vanhoutte
Thank you for this great explaination – especially the pictures helped me a lot to understand the difference between RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10.
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i learn about raid levels very well with ur diagrammatic representation but some matter missing about stripping,mirroring
View ArticleBy: Gerald
@hari, you are joking right? The A, B, C etc don’t give you a clue? and the fact that on RAID-1 it has A on both sides? and it says mirrored in the diagram description!
View ArticleBy: Matt
I really appreciate this site. Really simplifies the differences to help them be more digestible and make sense. Thank you for putting it together.
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By: raja
I really appreciate this site. Really simplifies the differences to help them be more digestible and make sense. Thank you for putting it together.
View ArticleBy: Chuckles
I know this may be a simple question however, can I set up the raid level 1 across IDE and SATA ? Just wanting to migrate to SATA and provide some redundancy to this server. Thanks fore your time.
View ArticleBy: Rupesh
In computers that use multiple hard disk systems, disk striping is the process of dividing a body of data into blocks and spreading the data blocks across several partitions on several hard disks. Each...
View ArticleBy: Claus M
Nice article refreshing my understanding of the RAID concept. I’m on the search for a stable and fast disk system to be included in a music production setup and considering the Promise Pegasus R4...
View ArticleBy: Gerald
@chuckles, sure but only as a temporary measure. You would do better to backup/restore your data between the two different disk architectures. @rupesh, i am not sure that your wordy and sometimes...
View ArticleBy: vijay
Parity is to check whether the data is written same on all the disks. We can set a flag to detect the error of the data is not written same on all the disks. Strip is for writing the data in all...
View ArticleBy: nawaf
its easy to understand .it would become simple it each part is labelled with numbers indicating the mirror,stripping etc
View ArticleBy: Prabhu
Dear all, I’m new to this RAID concept and just today I came across this topic and I was interested in this. To begin with, I have a laptop with just one drive(c:\) where the operating system and all...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
@prabhu – I don’t think you have understood the RAID concepts that have been discussed in this blog!!! First of all RAID0 has NO redundancy! It was NOT defined in the original work on RAID and was...
View ArticleBy: Thin_Techie
What good (or bad) things happen if RAID 5 would have all the parity blocks on 1 drive? Things could still be rebuilt… if any 1 of the 3 drives were lost.
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