Promise Technology 15110 Musical Instrument User Manual


 
Chapter 7: Technology Background
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RAID 3
Recommended Applications for RAID 3
Image Editing
Prepress Applications
Any application requiring high throughput
RAID 5
Recommended Applications for RAID 5
RAID 10
Recommended Applications for RAID 10
Imaging applications
Database servers
General fileserver
Advantages Disadvantages
High Read data transfer rate
Disk failure has an insignificant impact
on throughput
Parity drive can become bottleneck if a
lot of data is being written to the disk
array
Advantages Disadvantages
High Read data transaction rate
Medium Write data transaction rate
Good aggregate transfer rate
Disk failure has a medium impact on
throughput
File and Application servers
WWW, E-mail, and News servers
Intranet servers
Most versatile RAID level
Advantages Disadvantages
Implemented as a mirrored disk array
whose segments are RAID 0 disk
arrays
High I/O rates are achieved thanks to
multiple stripe segments
Very high disk overhead - uses only
50% of total capacity