84
Stripe Size
The length of the interleaved data segments written across
multiple hard disks.
Example:
Configure four hard disk drives as RAID 0 and the data is striped in segments.
Segment One writes to HDD 1, Segment Two writes to HDD 2, and so on as below:
HDD 1
Segment One
Segment Five
Segment Nine
HDD 2
Segment Two
Segment Six
Segment Ten
Choosing a RAID Level
The YES Box N2100 supports standard RAID levels 0 and 1. You choose a RAID
level when you create a system volume. The factors for selecting a RAID level are:
z
Your requirements for performance
z
Your need for data security
z
Number of hard disk drives in the system
z
Capacity of hard disk drives in the system
The following is a description of each RAID level and its pros and cons:
RAID
Application
Pros
Cons
No. of
HDDs
Fault
Tolerant
0
Best suited for
non-critical data
that requires
high
performance.
Description:
Data is divided
into blocks and
sequentially
distributed.
High
performance
for large files
If any HDD
fails, all
data is lost
1~32 No
1
Best suited for
read-intensive
fault-tolerant
Excellent
Data
Security
Half the
hard disk
space
2 Yes
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