RAID:

Redundant
Arrays of Independent
Disks
What is RAID?

A RAID is:
• A technology used in
computer storage to improve
performance, reliability, or
both. It achieves this by
combining multiple physical
disk drives into a single
logical unit.
 RAID

One Single
Disk 4
Disk
Disk 3
Disk 2

Disk 1
 RAID: Benefits

Fault Performance
Redundancy Scalability
Tolerance Improvement
 Types of Raid
RAID Types Data Redundancy Performance Capacity Use Cases

Performance-critical applications (not

0 (Striping) None Best None
data-sensitive)

1(Mirroring) Mirror No improvement Halved High data security (critical data)

Combined capacity - Balance of performance and

5 Parity Good
1 drive redundancy

Combined capacity - High data security for multi-drive

6 Double parity Very good
2 drives failure risk
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