Biostar Hi-Fi B85S3E Manuale Proprietario

RAID 10 combines the advantages (and 
disadvantages) of RAID 0 and RAID 1 in 
one single system. It provides security 
by mirroring all data on a secondary set 
of disks (disk 3 and 4 in the drawing 
below) while using striping across each 
set of disks to speed up data transfers. 

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Drives: Minimum 4, and maximum is 6 or 8, depending on the platform. 

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Benefits: Optimizes for both fault tolerance and performance, allowing for automatic 
redundancy. May be simultaneously used with other RAID levels in an array, and 
allows for spare disks. 

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Drawbacks: Requires twice the available disk space for data redundancy, the same 
as RAID level 1. 

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Fault Tolerance: Yes. 

 

A RAID 5 array can withstand a single 
disk failure without losing data or access 
to data. Although RAID 5 can be 
achieved in software, a hardware 
controller is recommended. Often extra 
cache memory is used on these 
controllers to improve the write 
performance. 

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Drives: Minimum 3. 

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Uses: RAID 5 is recommended for transaction processing and general purpose 
service. 

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Benefits: An ideal combination of good performance, good fault tolerance, and high 
capacity and storage efficiency. 

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Drawbacks: Individual block data transfer rate same as a single disk. Write 
performance can be CPU intensive. 

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Fault Tolerance: Yes. 

 

Note1: The RAID 0,1,10 and 5 functions are only supported by H87 chipsets. 
Note2: For more details settings about Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST), please visit 
http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support/highlights/chpsts/imsm