IOGear M0557 User Manual
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Mirrored-Striping (RAID 0+1 also known as RAID 10)
A Mirrored-Striping Set does just what it says, combining both Striping and Mirroring technologies
to provide both the performance enhancements that come from Striping and the data availability
and integrity that comes from Mirroring. When data is written to a Mirrored-Striped Set, instead
of creating just one virtual disk as Striping would do, a second Mirrored virtual disk is created as
well.
Parity RAID (RAID 5)
Parity or RAID 5 adds fault tolerance to Disk Striping by including parity information with the data.
Parity RAID dedicates the equivalent of one disk for storing parity stripes. The data and parity
information is arranged on the disk array so that parity references are written to different disks.
There are at least 3 members to a Parity RAID set.
Parity RAID uses less capacity for protection and is the preferred method to reduce the cost per
megabyte for larger installations. Mirroring requires 100% increase in capacity to protect the data
whereas the above example only requires a 50% increase. The required capacity decreases as
the number of disks in the group increases.