Raid 5

[yrmr78]

Hello,

I am trying to configure one of new servers with Raid 5.

I have 6 300GB H/D. This is a first time i am doing this so i am little lost. I have worked with raid 0 and 1 before, so this is something new. if someone guide i would greatly appreciated.

Server:

IBM XSeries 346

Thanks,

yrmr78

 

[Rick]

Things you should know:

• RAID-5 is good fault tolerance with good speed.
• RAID-5 is three or more disks with parity data spread over all disks.
• The total capacity of your RAID-5 array will be (Largest Disk x Number of Disks) - 1 Disk = Capacity
• The maximum number of drives than can fail before RAID-5 fails is one. This is regardless of the number of drives present in your array.
• RAID-5 is intended to be hot-swappable.
• If a disk fails, you'll need to rebuild your array for it to be fault tolerant again. This takes many hours, typically.

This is RAID-5 information.
You may also want to consider RAID-50