Raid-1 enhanced, Raid-5 – IBM J.D. EDWARDS' ONEWORLD B73.3 User Manual

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Disk duplexing is similar to RAID 1 except the two disks are attached to different
disk controllers. The advantage here is a further gain of fault tolerance. The
system or data can now withstand the loss of a disk controller and a disk. In some
circumstances a reboot of the system is required, to switch to the other disk
controller and to bring the system back online.

5.2.5.3 Enhanced RAID 1
Enhanced RAID 1 is a combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1. To put it simply, it is
the "mirroring" of a RAID 0 array, within a single array (shown in Figure 13):

Figure 13. Example of Enhanced RAID 1

This combination of RAID 0 and RAID 1 has advantages of increased
performance when reading data but has an overhead of writing data twice on all
writes. However, this can be used to an advantage, by placing the Enhanced
RAID 1 in a mostly read environment.

Loss of a single disk (as in RAID 1) does not create data loss. In most
circumstances this will provide very good data protection, while providing
enhanced performance.

5.2.5.4 RAID Five (RAID 5)
RAID 5 is the striping of data and parity (or checksum) across all disks (shown in
Figure 14):

Figure 14. Example of RAID 5

Data is striped with a parity or checksum on each write of data. The total amount
of data that can be stored in a RAID 5 array is N-1, where N is the number of
disks within the single array. For example, 5 x 9.1 GB in an array will give 4 x 9.1
GB of data storage capacity. If a disk should fail, the system will keep providing
data to end users, creating read data by using the checksum as required. There

RAID-1
Enhanced

Fault Tolerant

data1
data4

data2
data1

data3
data2

data4
data3

5842\RAID1

RAID-5

Fault Tolerant

Based upon the single equation
single unknown technique.
For example, data1 + data2
+ data3 = checksum

CS=6

data4
data7

data10

data1

CS=19

data8

data11

data2
data5

CS=32

data12

data3
data6
data9

CS=42

5842\RAID5

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