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Chapter 1. Introduction to the 3ware Command Line Interface
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3ware Serial ATA RAID Controller CLI Guide 
Figure 5.  RAID 10 Configuration Example
                                      
RAID 50
RAID 50 is a combination of RAID 5 with RAID 0. This array type provides 
fault tolerance and high performance. RAID 50 requires a minimum of six 
drives.
Several combinations are available with RAID 50. For example, on a 12-port 
controller, you can have a grouping of 3, 4, or 6 drives. A grouping of 3 means 
that the RAID 5 arrays used have 3 disks each; four of these 3-drive RAID 5 
arrays are striped together to form the 12-drive RAID 50 array. On a 16-port 
controller, you can have a grouping of 4 or 8 drives.
In addition, RAID 50 arrays offer a higher degree of fault tolerance than 
RAID 1 and RAID 5, since the array can sustain multiple drive failures 
without data loss. For example, in a twelve-drive RAID 50 array, up to one 
drive in each RAID 5 set can fail and the array will continue to function. 
Please note that if two or more drives in a RAID 5 set fail, then all of the data 
will be lost.