Remembering Raid... Unique memory Question

jdog29

Does Anybody have a unique way of remebering what Raid #'s are what? Like mirrored, Stripped data across drives ABC drives... that sort of thing. I usually forget which raid array is what. I would like to remember them instead of having to reference this time after time.

Also just wondering if raid can be set up on newer SATA drives?

Thanks for all your input guys.

JDog29

Ricka182

There are too many levels of Raid to remember them all. The most common are 0, also called stripping, 1 which is a mirror set, and 5, which uses a seperate disk for parity. You can combine different levels as well. And Yes, Sata works with Raid. Most Sata drives I see are advertised for Raid purposes. You can see a great tutorial with all the Raid levels, here.

jdog29

Thanks Ricka182 for that info and link. I will go check it out, it looks pretty cool. That was exactly what I was looking for, you answered my question perfectly. Good Day.

JDog29

Ricka182

Happy to help....

lordy

RAID 5 uses distributed parity (across all drives) not a single drive for parity.

johnnynodough

The retired (for the most part) raid level 3 was the one that used a dedicated drive for parity.

Ricka182

lordy wrote:

RAID 5 uses distributed parity (across all drives) not a single drive for parity.

My bad. (duh)