Dell PowerVault MD1120 - Manual (Page 38)

A REFERENCE GUIDE FOR OPTIMIZING DELL™ POWERVAULT™ MD1XXX FAMILY SAS SOLUTION VER A02
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Not Recommended:
•
Concatenated – This solution is not recommended due to lack of redundancy and
limited performance.
Note: While these configurations are not recommended, they can be configured and
utilized.
Table 25: Streaming Media Enclosure Guidelines
Application
Enclosure
MD1000
3U / 15 x 3.5” drive
MD1120
2U / 24 x 2.5” drive
Streaming Media
Recommended Not Recommended Possible
Recommended:
• MD1000 – Recommended for streaming media servers due to focus on storage capacity.
Possible:
• MD1120 – Possible option for streaming media servers where transactional performance
is high priority.
i.
Hot Spares
Hot Spare functionality provides extra security, availability and redundancy by automatically
replacing a failed physical disk in a RAID group and allowing the rebuild of the degraded array to
begin immediately. PERC controllers support Hot Spare functionality and it is recommended
whenever possible.