
Comparing RAID Levels
Use this table to select the RAID levels that are most appropriate for the logical drives on your storage
space, based on the number of available disk drives and your requirements for performance and reliability.
Minimum
Disk Drives
Built-in Hot
Spare
Write
Performance
Read
Performance
Disk Drive
Usage
RedundancyRAID Level
2No******100%NoRAID 0
2No****50%YesRAID 1
3No****50%YesRAID 1E
4No****50%YesRAID 10
3No****67 – 94%YesRAID 5
4Yes****50 – 88%YesRAID 5EE
6No****67 – 94%YesRAID 50
4No***50 – 88%YesRAID 6
8No***50 – 88%YesRAID 60
Disk drive usage, read performance, and write performance depend on the number of drives in the
logical drive. In general, the more drives, the better the performance.
Understanding Drive Segments
A drive segment is a disk drive or portion of a disk drive that is used to create a logical drive. A disk drive
can include both RAID segments (segments that are part of a logical drive) and available segments. Each
segment can be part of only one logical drive at a time. If a disk drive is not part of any logical drive, the
entire disk is an available segment.
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