SAS to SAS/SATA RAID Subsystem16 User ManualRAID ManagementThe subsystem can implement several different levels of RAID technology. RAID levelssupported by the subsystem are shown below.RAID Level Description Min. Drives0Block striping is provide, which yields higherperformance than with individual drives. There isno redundancy.11Drives are paired and mirrored. All data is 100%duplicated on an equivalent drive. Fullyredundant.23 Data is striped across several physical drives.Parity protection is used for data redundancy. 35 Data is striped across several physical drives.Parity protection is used for data redundancy. 36Data is striped across several physical drives.Parity protection is used for data redundancy.Requires N+2 drives to implement because oftwo-dimensional parity scheme.410 (1E)Combination of RAID levels 1 and 0. This levelprovides striping and redundancy throughmirroring. RAID 10 requires the use of an evennumber of disk drives to achieve data protection,while RAID 1E (Enhanced Mirroring) uses an oddnumber of drives.4 (3)30Combination of RAID levels 0 and 3. This level isbest implemented on two RAID 3 disk arrayswith data striped across both disk arrays.650RAID 50 provides the features of both RAID 0and RAID 5. RAID 50 includes both parity anddisk striping across multiple drives. RAID 50 isbest implemented on two RAID 5 disk arrayswith data striped across both disk arrays.660RAID 60 combines both RAID 6 and RAID 0features. Data is striped across disks as in RAID0, and it uses double distributed parity as inRAID 6. RAID 60 provides data reliability, goodoverall performance and supports larger volumesizes.RAID 60 also provides very high reliabilitybecause data is still available even if multiple diskdrives fail (two in each disk array).8