Striped raid array, Mirrored-stripe raid array, Spanning (jbod) raid array – Nvidia 4 User Manual

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Using the NVIDIA MediaShield RAID Management Utility

Striped RAID Array

Figure 3.3

shows an example of a two hard drive striped array using identical 34.48 GB

SATA hard drives (WD360GB), where one drive is configured as Primary and the other
drive is configured as Secondary. The total disk space used is 68.95GB.

Figure 3.3 MediaShield Striped Array Information

Mirrored-Stripe RAID Array

Figure 3.4

shows an example of a four hard drive mirrored-stripe array. The total disk

space used is 68.95 GB.

The total storage space is 68.95 GB because the two upper drives (the drives with the 34.48
GB size) are first striped, and then they are mirrored onto the 69.25 GB drives.

Figure 3.4 MediaShield Stripe Mirroring Array Information

Spanning (JBOD) RAID Array

Figure 3.5

shows an example of a two hard drive spanning array. The total disk space

used is 68.95 GB.

Figure 3.5 MediaShield Spanning Array Information

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