RAID 3

Provides redundancy by writing all data to three or moredrives. This RAID 3 disk array provides excellent storage for videoimaging, streaming, publishing applications or any system that requireslarge file block transfers.

Advantages

• Single dedicated parity disk
• High read data rate
• High write data rate
• 4 drives minimum
• No performance degradation if drive fails
• Best and worst case performance similar

Disadvantages

• Inefficient with small file transfer

Applications

• Video Streaming
• Video Publishing
• Video Editing
• Pre Press
• Image editing
• Any application that needs heavy updating and large file usage