Advantages
- Most flexible of all disk arrays
- Best balance cost / performance / protection of any RAID system
- Allows multiple simultaneous writes
- High read data rate
- Medium write data rate
- 3 drives minimum
- Ideal for small write applications
- Highly efficient
Disadvantages
- Inefficient with large file transfer
- Disk failure has an impact on performance
Applications
- Transaction processing
- Relational Databases
- File & Print Servers
- WWW, E-mail, and News servers
- Intranet Servers
