D-Link DNS-6040 [152/185] Raid 0 striping

D-Link DNS-6040 [152/185] Raid 0 striping
DNS-6040M/DNS-6040 User’s Manual
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RAID level Functionality
RAID 5 with
hot spare
RAID 5 with hot spare adds one spare disk to the RAID 5
array, allocating one for redundancy and the second one as a
spare. The actual available storage space in a system with n
disks is thus n-2 hard disks.
Each of the RAID configurations offers a different disk capacity
and level of safety. When making your choice, consider the
following:
The bigger the available space, the fewer safeguards the
system has.
In any RAID array, the logical capacity of the array is
determined by the disk with the smallest capacity. E.g., in a
RAID 5 configuration with one 20 GB and three 30 GB hard
disks, the total capacity available is equal to four 20 GB
hard disks. Therefore you should always choose to combine
hard disks of equal size in the same array.
RAID 0 (striping)
In a RAID 0 array, data is split and stored in different locations,
but without fault tolerance. The server treats the array as one big
disk, with a size of almost all individual disks combined. The
parallel access to multiple disks allows for faster read and write,
making the array faster than individual disks. Because of that,
this configuration is ideal for applications where large amounts
of streaming data have to be efficiently transferred while
assuring good quality, e.g. in a recording.
RAID 0 offers no mirroring or redundancy options. If one disk

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