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The document discusses different types of RAID configurations with diagrams. It summarizes RAID 0 as striping data across disks for increased performance but no redundancy. RAID 1 mirrors data across disk pairs for redundancy. RAID 5 stripes data and stores parity information across disks for speed and redundancy. RAID 6 is similar to RAID 5 but stores an extra parity block to allow two disk failures. RAID 10 combines mirroring from RAID 1 with striping from RAID 0 for high performance and redundancy.

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The document discusses different types of RAID configurations with diagrams. It summarizes RAID 0 as striping data across disks for increased performance but no redundancy. RAID 1 mirrors data across disk pairs for redundancy. RAID 5 stripes data and stores parity information across disks for speed and redundancy. RAID 6 is similar to RAID 5 but stores an extra parity block to allow two disk failures. RAID 10 combines mirroring from RAID 1 with striping from RAID 0 for high performance and redundancy.

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Assignment #3

Submitted By: Raja Muhammad Ali Basharat


Submitted To: Sir Raza
Subject : CCN
Roll No : 1361
Date : 7/12/19
Types of Raid along with diagram.
RAID 0 (Disk striping):
RAID 0 splits data across any number of disks allowing higher data throughput. An individual file
is read from multiple disks giving it access to the speed and capacity of all of them. This RAID
level is often referred to as striping and has the benefit of increased performance. However, it
does not facilitate any kind of redundancy and fault tolerance as it does not duplicate data or
store any parity information (more on parity later). Both disks appear as a single partition, so
when one of them fails, it breaks the array and results in data loss. RAID 0 is usually
implemented for caching live streams and other files where speed is important and
reliability/data loss is secondary.  

RAID 1 (Disk Mirroring):


RAID 1 writes and reads identical data to pairs of drives. This process is often called data
mirroring and it’s a primary function is to provide redundancy. If any of the disks in the array
fails, the system can still access data from the remaining disk(s). Once you replace the faulty
disk with a new one, the data is copied to it from the functioning disk(s) to rebuild the array.
RAID 1 is the easiest way to create failover storage.
RAID 5 (Striping with parity):
RAID 5 stripes data blocks across multiple disks like RAID 0, however, it also stores parity
information (Small amount of data that can accurately describe larger amounts of data) which
is used to recover the data in case of disk failure. This level offers both speed (data is accessed
from multiple disks) and redundancy as parity data is stored across all of the disks. If any of the
disks in the array fails, data is recreated from the remaining distributed data and parity blocks.
It uses approximately one-third of the available disk capacity for storing parity information.
RAID 6 (Striping with double parity):
Raid 6 is similar to RAID 5, however, it provides increased reliability as it stores an extra parity
block. That effectively means that it is possible for two drives to fail at once without breaking
the array.
RAID 10 (Striping + Mirroring):
RAID 10 combines the mirroring of RAID 1 with the striping of RAID 0. Or in other words, it
combines the redundancy of RAID 1 with the increased performance of RAID 0. It is best
suitable for environments where both high performance and security is required.

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