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VessRAID Setup - Promise Technology, Inc.

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<strong>VessRAID</strong> 1000i Series Product Manual<br />

RAID 50 – Striping of Distributed Parity<br />

RAID 50 combines both RAID 5 and RAID 0 features. Data is striped across<br />

physical drives as in RAID 0, and it uses distributed parity as in RAID 5. RAID 50<br />

provides data reliability, good overall performance, and supports larger volume<br />

sizes.<br />

Figure 7. RAID 50 is a combination of RAID 5 and RAID 0<br />

Data<br />

Stripes<br />

Distributed Parity<br />

Disk Drives<br />

The data capacity RAID 50 logical drive equals the capacity of the smallest<br />

physical drive times the number of physical drives, minus two.<br />

RAID 50 also provides very high reliability because data is still available even if<br />

multiple physical drives fail (one in each axle). The greater the number of axles,<br />

the greater the number of physical drives that can fail without the RAID 50 logical<br />

drive going offline.<br />

Component Minimum Maximum<br />

Number of Axles 2 16<br />

Physical Drives per Axle 3 32<br />

Physical Drives per Logical Drive 6 256<br />

252<br />

Axle 1<br />

Axle 2

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