Raid Levels explained

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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