Thecus Black Data Storage 4 bays N4100B Leaflet

Thecus N4100 IP Storage Appliance 

 

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The Thecus N4100 supports standard RAID levels 0, 1, and 5. You choose a RAID level when you create a 

system volume. The factors for selecting a RAID level are: 

•  Your requirements for performance 
•  Your need for data security 
•  Number of hard disk drives in the system 
•  Capacity of hard disk drives in the system 

The following is a description of each RAID level and its pros and cons: 

0 

Best suited for non-critical data that 

requires high performance. 

Description: Data is divided into 

blocks and sequentially distributed. 

High performance 

for large files 

If any HDD fails, 

all data is lost 

1~32 No 

1 

Best suited for read-intensive fault-

tolerant systems. 

Description: Data is duplicated on 

another HDD (mirroring). 

100% Data 

Security 

Half the hard disk 

space available. 

Performance 

impaired during 

rebuild.   

2 Yes 

5 

Best suited for high read volume, low 

write volume applications such as 

transaction processing. 

Description: Disk striping and parity 

data across all HDDs. 

Low cost data 

security 

Performance not 

as high as RAID 

0 or RAID 1 

3~32 Yes