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ReadyNAS Products What is RAID? What is the easiest way to get RAID?
Many Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices use RAID technology to provide a large
RAID (Redundant Array of amount of storage with a level of fault-tolerance through redundancy. Although RAID in the
Independent Disks) arrays past was reserved for enterprise companies, gone are the days when RAID comes at a high
cost and requires IT specialists to manage it. RAID is now available in affordable solutions
allow multiple individual
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RAID 2 • Uses bit-level data striping • Repairs and replaces corrupt data
• Stores error checking and correcting info • No advantage over RAID 3
• Method not currently used
RAID 4 • Uses block-level data striping • Services multiple I/O read requests simultaneously
• Dedicates a drive to parity information • No I/O overlapping for write operations, requires update
• Can read records from any single drive to parity drive
• Requires at least 3 disks • Offers no advantage over RAID-5
RAID 5 • Uses block-level striping with parity data distributed across all • Low cost of redundancy
member disks • Read and write operations can be overlapped (limitation
• Stores parity data across disks, but not redundant data in RAID-4)
(although parity information can be used to reconstruct data) • Best balance of performance, protection and capacity
• Requires at least 3 disks
X-RAID™ • Proprietary expandable RAID from Infrant Technologies • Can expand from 1 HDD to 4 HDD
• Automates volume expansion • Can replace disks for higher capacity
• Manages RAID details for you • Equivalent to RAID 5 in performance, protection and
capacity
• Offers fast sequential read and write operations
RAID 6 • Block-level striping • Offers extremely high fault- and drive-failure tolerance
• Extends RAID-5 by adding a second parity block that is • Write operations slower due to dual parity
distributed across drives • Can protect against 2 HDD failure but is really only
suitable for 8+ drive systems
• Rare in market
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