Thursday, March 10, 2011

Raid 0+1

RAID 0+1
Provides redundancy by writing all data to four or more drives.RAID 0+1 combines the benefits of RAID level 0 and RAID level 1.This offers both striping and mirroring with no parity generation.The RAID 0+1 also provides high performance and resilience to RAID 5.


Advantages
No parity generation
Easy to implement
Utilises full disk capacity
4 drives minimum
Higher performance than RAID 5
Disadvantages
Inefficient use of disk space
High disk overhead / Expensive
Costly to deploy

Applications
General File servers
Imaging applications
Medium size database applications

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