Users Guide
RAID 50 characteristics:
● Groups n*s disks as one large virtual disk with a capacity of s*(n-1) disks, where s is the number of spans and n is the
number of disks within each span.
● Redundant information (parity) is alternately stored on all disks of each RAID 5 span.
● Better read performance, but slower write performance.
● Requires as much parity information as standard RAID 5.
● Data is striped across all spans. RAID 50 is more expensive in terms of disk space.
RAID level 60 - striping over RAID 6 sets
RAID 60 is striping over more than one span of physical disks that are configured as a RAID 6. For example, a RAID 6 disk group
that is implemented with four physical disks and then continues on with a disk group of four more physical disks would be a
RAID 60.
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