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PLANET NAS-7400 User Manual
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Any application requiring very high availability
RAID 5
Advantages Disadvantages
High Read data transaction rate
Medium Write data transaction rate
Good aggregate transfer rate
Most versatile RAID level Disk failure has a medium
impact on throughput
Recommended applications for RAID 5:
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File and Application servers
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WWW, E-mail, and News servers
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Intranet servers
RAID 10
Advantages Disadvantages
Implemented as a mirrored RAID
Volume whose segments are RAID 0
RAID Volumes
High I/O rates are achieved thanks to
multiple stripe segments Very high disk overhead –
uses only 50% of total
capacity
Recommended applications for RAID 10:
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Imaging applications
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Database servers
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General fileserver
7.2.1 TB Limitation
In order to be compatible with different Operating Systems and the files
systems that each one supports, the largest RAID Volume you can create on
NAS-7400 is 2 TB.