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Promise Technology 2-Year Extended Warranty for VessR2000 RAID Head User Manual

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Technology Background

RAID 60 Axles

When you create a RAID 60, you must specify the number of axles. An axle refers to a single RAID 6 logical

drive that is striped with other RAID 6 logical drives to make RAID 60. An axle can have from 4 to 32 physical

drives, de-pending on the number of physical drives in the logical drive.

Components

Minimum

Maximum

Number of Axles

2

16

Physical Drives per Axle

4

32

Physical Drives per Logical Drive

8

256

Recommended Applications for RAID 60:

• Accounting and Financial

• Database servers

• Any application requiring very high availability