RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 10 - All You Need to Know as Fast As Possible
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·Techquickie
·2013-05-07
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Welcome to TechQuy. Today we're going to tell you all you need to know about RAID
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zero, RAID one, and RAID 10 as fast as possible. You've probably seen reference
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to RAID somewhere, but what does it mean? It stands for redundant array of
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inexpensive discs, and it basically means using multiple drives or discs to
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achieve better performance andor better reliability. RAID zero is all about
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speed. It contributes nothing to reliability except to actually make it
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worse. So it involves taking two drives or more and actually striping the data
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across all of the drives. This means you get to keep all of your capacity and you
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get to have in theory with two drives double the read and write performance
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but in the event that one of the drives underos a hardware failure you will lose
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all of the data that was stored on both of the drives. This configuration is
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only ideal if you're going to be doing very frequent backups or if you are
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going for the most extreme performance possible, such as running multiple SSDs.
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RAID one is all about reliability. You get the capacity of one of your drives.
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You get the performance of one of your drives, but you get the redundancy of
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two drives. That means if one of these two drives I have here fails outright,
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all of the data will still be there. There's no performance overhead for
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running RAID one. You're still going to get the full performance of the drives,
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but the more drives you add to a RAID one, you're always only going to get
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half the capacity that you would otherwise have. The advantage of RAID 1
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is it's extremely safe. So, I would trust most important documents to a RAID
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one array. RAID 10 combines what's good about RAID zero and what's good about
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RAID one into the same thing. So, you're taking four drives, you're striping
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these two and striping these two, then you're mirroring these two against these
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two. So what that means is you get about double the performance of an individual
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drive. You get double the capacity of an individual drive, but you could lose up
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to two drives in a RAID 10 array without losing any data. This is great where
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performance is needed, space is needed, but you don't necessarily want to invest
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in an expensive RAID card solution like this one. There
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are types of RAID that we haven't covered in this episode, but we will make another one. So there will be an
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annotation once that's done. You can go ahead and click on that to learn about them, but those are generally reserved
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for more professional applications. If you are deploying some kind of a RAID
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configuration, I would definitely recommend posting in the linesttips.com
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forum and asking for some help because RAID can be a little bit tricky to set
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up. Last but not least, RAID is not a substitution for backing up. Redundancy
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is not the same thing as a backup. Even if you're running a RAID, you are still
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susceptible to things like viruses or accidental deletion or other human
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error. So, make sure that you're doing regular backups.
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