LaCie 4BIG QUADRA USB 3.0 White Paper

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Summary of 4BIG QUADRA USB 3.0

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    Raid technology white paper as specialists in data storage, lacie recognizes that almost all computer users will need a storage or backup solution and that people use and store data in different ways. Depending on their requirements, some people may prioritize performance and ca- pacity, whereas oth...

  • Page 2: Raid 0

    Page 2 lacie raid technology white paper standard raid levels raid 0 raid 0 (also called fast mode in some lacie devices), is the fastest raid mode. Requiring at least 2 drives, raid 0 stripes data onto each disk. The available capacities of each disk are added together so that one logical volume mo...

  • Page 3: Raid 1

    Page 3 lacie raid technology white paper raid 1 raid 1 (also called safe mode in some lacie devices) is a secure raid mode that requires at least 2 drives and works with pairs of drives. One logical volume mounts on the computer and the combined available capacity of both drives is limited to the ca...

  • Page 4: Raid 3

    Page 4 lacie raid technology white paper raid 3 raid 3 uses byte-level striping with a dedicated parity disk (disk 4 in the illustrations, right) so that one volume mounts on the computer. A raid 3 array can tolerate a single disk failure without data loss. If one physical disk fails, the data from ...

  • Page 5: Raid 3+ Spare

    Page 5 lacie raid technology white paper raid 3+spare in raid 3+spare, one disk in the array is left empty. If a drive in the array fails, the data from the failed disk is automatically rebuilt to the empty or “spare” disk. Applications in raid 3+spare disk failure does not require immediate attenti...

  • Page 6: Raid 5

    Page 6 lacie raid technology white paper raid 5 raid 5 combines the striping of raid 0 with data redundancy in an array with a minimum of three disks. The difference between raid 3 and raid 5 is that a raid 3 configuration will offer better performance at the expense of slightly less overall capacit...

  • Page 7: Raid 5+Spare

    Page 7 lacie raid technology white paper raid 5+spare raid 5+spare, is a raid 5 array in which one disk is used as spare to rebuild the system as soon as a disk fails. At least four disks are required. If one physical disk fails, the data remains available because it is read from the parity blocks. ...

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    Page 8 lacie raid technology white paper raid 6 in raid 6, data is striped across all disks (minimum of four) and a two parity blocks for each data block (p and q in the diagram at right) is written on the same stripe. If one physical disk fails, the data from the failed disk can be rebuilt onto a r...

  • Page 9: Raid 0+1

    Page 9 lacie raid technology white paper nested raid levels raid 0+1 raid 0+1 is a secure raid mode that is composed of a mirror of striped sets. Raid 0+1 arrays should have disks in multiples of four. For lacie products with five disks, in a raid 0+1 array, the fifth disk will either be a spare or ...

  • Page 10: Raid 10

    Page 10 lacie raid technology white paper raid 1 raid 1 raid 0 a2 a4 a6 a8 raid 10 a2 a6 a8 a4 a1 a3 a7 a5 a1 a3 a5 a7 disk 1 disk 2 disk 3 disk 4 raid 10 raid 10 (also called raid 1+0) is another raid level that combines the attributes of other levels, specifically raid 1 and raid 0. It is a “strip...

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    Page 11 lacie raid technology white paper other configurations concatenation when disks are concatenated, their capacities are combined and data is written to the primary disk in the array until is it full and then to successive disks. Concatenation provides no performance advantage or added mea- su...

  • Page 12: Jbod

    Page 12 lacie raid technology white paper jbod a b c d e f g h i j k o l p m n disk 1 disk 2 disk 3 disk 4 jbod jbod stands for just a bunch of disks. Each disk in the array, whether part of separate devices or the same device, mounts on the computer as a separate disk. Lacie products with jbod mode...

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    Page 13 lacie raid technology white paper * built-in raid0 h h h * h * h raid1 h h raid3 h raid3+spare h raid5 h h raid5+spare h h raid6 h raid0+1 raid10 h h concatenation h h h h jbod lacie 2big quadra lacie 4big quadra lacie big disk quadralacie little big disk quadra lacie ethernet disk lacie 2bi...

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    A b o u t l a c i e through a combination of cutting-edge engineering and a rich history of unique design aesthetics, lacie has earned an excellent reputation for producing products that are the perfect synthesis of form and function. Our hard disks, net- work and raid solutions, optical drives, dis...