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RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into one or more logical units for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both. The document defines several RAID levels (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10) that provide different combinations of striping, mirroring, and parity-based fault tolerance. It notes that RAID was first defined by David Patterson in 1987 and provides advantages like data reliability, increased performance and capacity, but also has disadvantages such as cost and potential performance impacts.

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Abhishek Abraham S4, Mca

RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into one or more logical units for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both. The document defines several RAID levels (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10) that provide different combinations of striping, mirroring, and parity-based fault tolerance. It notes that RAID was first defined by David Patterson in 1987 and provides advantages like data reliability, increased performance and capacity, but also has disadvantages such as cost and potential performance impacts.

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RAID

Abhishek Abraham S4, MCA


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RAID
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks - Theyre also independent disks. Different RAID levels 1.RAID 0 - Striping without parity 2.RAID 1 - . mirroring without parity or striping 3.RAID 10 - stripe of mirrors 4.RAID 2 - bit-level striping with dedicated Hamming code parity 5.RAID 3 - byte-level striping with a dedicated parity disk 6.RAID 4 - block-level striping with a dedicated parity disk 7.RAID 5 - block-level striping with parity data distributed across all disk RAID is an example of storage virtualization and was first defined by David Patterson in 1987

RAID 0
Striping means that each file is split into blocks of a certain size and those are distributed to the various drives. Offers superior I/O performance. Performance can be enhanced further by

using multiple controllers.

RAID 1
Mirroring means duplication of data i.e
-Data are stored twice . - Writing them to both the data disk and a mirror disk . The controller uses either the data drive or the mirror drive for data recovery.

RAID 10
A RAID 1+0, sometimes

called RAID 1&0 or RAID 10


RAID 10 is a stripe of mirrors

RAID 2
Bit-level striping means that the
file is broken into "bit-sized pieces.

It uses a Hamming code for


error correction.

RAID 3
Byte-level striping means that the
file is broken into "byte-sized pieces. Written in parallel on two or more drives. An additional drive stores parity information.

RAID 4
Block-level striping means that each file is split into blocks of a certain size. Allows each member to act independently when only a single block is requested. Service multiple read requests simultaneously.
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RAID 5
Most common secure RAID level.
Except that data are transferred to disks by independent read and write

operations.
Instead of a dedicated parity disk, parity information is spread across all the drives.

Advantages of Raid
RAID allows form of backup of the data in the storage .
Its is Hot Swappable. Ensures data reliability, increase in performance. Increase the parity check. Disk Stripping make multiple smaller disks look like one large

disk.

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Disadvantages
It cannot completely protect your data.
System should support RAID drives. Difficult to configure a RAID system. Costly, must purchase and maintain RAID controllers and dedicated hard drives.

It may slower the system performance.


RAID is not data protection, but to increase access speed.
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Conclusion
Overall it provides systems with a variety of benefits depending upon the version implemented. Most users will likely opt to use the RAID 0 for

increased performance without the loss of storage


space. This is primarily because redundancy is not an issue for

the average user.

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