EMC FC5700 Network Hardware User Manual


 
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EMC Fibre Channel Storage-System Configuration Planning
RAID Types and Tradeoffs
Use a RAID 0 Group (nonredundant individual access array) for
applications where
High availability is not important
Overall performance is very important
Use an individual unit for applications where
High availability is not important
Speed of write access is somewhat important
Use a hot spare where
In any RAID 5, RAID 3, RAID 1/0 or RAID 1 Group, high
availability is so important that you want to regain data
redundancy quickly without human intervention if any disk in
the Group fails
Minimizing the degraded performance caused by disk failure in a
RAID 5 or RAID 3 Group is important