RAID Calculator
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RAID Type
RAID Type Explanation
RAID 0 (Striping)
Minimum drives: 2
Data is distributed across multiple drives for higher performance but offers no redundancy.
RAID 1 (Mirroring)
Minimum drives: 2
Data is duplicated on two drives, providing full redundancy.
RAID 5 (Striping with Parity)
Minimum drives: 3
Data and parity are spread across multiple drives, allowing one drive failure.
RAID 6 (Dual Parity)
Minimum drives: 4
Similar to RAID 5 but with two parity blocks, allowing two drive failures.
RAID 50 (RAID 5+0)
Minimum drives: 6
Combines multiple RAID 5 groups into a RAID 0 for improved performance and fault tolerance.
RAID 60 (RAID 6+0)
Minimum drives: 8
Combines multiple RAID 6 groups into a RAID 0, providing high reliability and performance.
Notes:
- Usable Capacity: The actual space available for data after accounting for RAID protection and system partition.
- Protection Capacity: The amount of storage reserved by the RAID configuration to provide data protection. This capacity is used for parity, mirroring, or other redundancy mechanisms depending on the selected RAID level.
- Reserved Capacity: Storage space set aside for system use, such as metadata, or other reserved functions depending on system configuration.
- Unused Capacity: The portion of disk space that cannot be utilized due to mismatched drive sizes with the RAID group.
- Check the Infortrend products compatibility matrix to verify which drives are supported by your Infortrend device. (GS, DS)
- The Infortrend RAID calculator uses binary storage calculations for its results.
- Maximum logical drive capacity is 512TB.
- The results provided by this RAID calculator are approximate and should be used as a reference. Actual usable capacity may vary based on system configuration.