Thecus N5500 User's Manual

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Appendix C: RAID BasicsOverviewA Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is an array of several hard disksthat provide data security and high performance. A RAID system accesses severalhard disks simultaneously, which improves I/O performance over a single hard disk.Data security is enhanced by a RAID, since data loss due to a hard disk failure isminimized by regenerating redundant data from the other RAID hard disks.BenefitsRAID improves I/O performance, and increases data security through faulttolerance and redundant data storage.Improved PerformanceRAID provides access to several hard disk drives simultaneously, which greatlyincreases I/O performance.Data SecurityHard disk drive failure unfortunately is a common occurrence. A RAID helps preventagainst the loss of data due to hard disk failure. A RAID offers additional hard diskdrives that can avert data loss from a hard disk drive failure. If a hard drive fails, theRAID volume can regenerate data from the data and parity stored on its other harddisk drives.RAID LevelsThe <strong>Thecus</strong> <strong>N5500</strong> supports standard RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD. Youchoose a RAID level when you create a system volume. The factors for selecting aRAID level are:• Your requirements for performance• Your need for data security• Number of hard disk drives in the system, capacity of hard disk drives in thesystemThe following is a description of each RAID level:RAID 0RAID 0 is best suited for applications that need high bandwidth but do not require ahigh level of data security. The RAID 0 level provides the best performance of all theRAID levels, but it does not provide data redundancy.RAID 0 uses disk striping and breaking up data into blocks to write across all harddrives in the volume. The system can then use multiple hard drives for faster readand write. The stripe size parameter that was set when the RAID was createddetermines the size of each block. No parity calculations complicate the writeoperation.RAID 1RAID 1 mirrors all data from one hard disk drive to a second one hard disk drive,thus providing complete data redundancy. However, the cost of data storagecapacity is doubled.This is excellent for complete data security.136
RAID 5RAID 5 offers data security and it is best suited for networks that perform manysmall I/O transactions at the same time, as well as applications that require datasecurity such as office automation and online customer service. Use it also forapplications with high read requests but low write requests.RAID 5 includes disk striping at the byte level and parity information is written toseveral hard disk drives. If a hard disk fails the system uses parity stored on each ofthe other hard disks to recreate all missing information.RAID 6RAID 6 is essentially an extension of RAID level 5 which allows for additional faulttolerance by using a second independent distributed parity scheme (dual parity)Data is striped on a block level across a set of drives, just like in RAID 5, and asecond set of parity is calculated and written across all the drives; RAID 6 providesfor an extremely high data fault tolerance and can sustain two simultaneous drivefailures.This is a perfect solution for mission critical applications.RAID 10RAID 10 is implemented as a striped array whose segments are RAID 1 arrays. RAID10 has the same fault tolerance as RAID level 1.RAID 10 has the same overhead for fault-tolerance as mirroring alone. High I/Orates are achieved by striping RAID 1 segments.Under certain circumstances, RAID 10 array can sustain up to 2 simultaneous drivefailuresExcellent solution for applications that would have otherwise gone with RAID 1 butneed an additional performance boost.JBODAlthough a concatenation of disks (also called JBOD, or "Just a Bunch of Disks") isnot one of the numbered RAID levels, it is a popular method for combining multiplephysical disk drives into a single virtual one. As the name implies, disks are merelyconcatenated together, end to beginning, so they appear to be a single large disk.As the data on JBOD is not protected, one drive failure could result total data loss.Stripe SizeThe length of the data segments being written across multiple hard disks. Data iswritten in stripes across the multiple hard disks of a RAID. Since multiple disks areaccessed at the same time, disk striping enhances performance. The stripes canvary in size.137
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Safety WarningsFor your safety, ple
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Media ServerWith the built-in Media
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Chapter 3: First Time SetupOverview
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Step 1: Network SetupFrom the Web A
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Product InformationItemDescriptionM
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Truncate All Log File Clear all log
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Firmware UpgradeFrom the menu, choo
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UPnPThis device supports UPnP Media
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RAID InformationItemDescriptionMast
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Remove RAIDClick to remove the RAID
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