Promise Technology M310p User Manual

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RAID 10
Recommended Applications for RAID 10:
Imaging applications 
Database servers 
General fileserver
RAID 50
Recommended Applications for RAID 50:
File and Application servers 
Transaction processing
Office application with many users accessing small files
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
Advantages
Disadvantages
High Read data transaction rate
Medium Write data transaction rate
Good aggregate transfer rate
High reliability
Supports large volume sizes
Higher disk overhead than RAID 5