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Can I configure the NAS 4000 Series without RAID 5?

July 24th, 2009 No comments

I don’t need the redundancy of RAID five and want more usable disk space. Can I configure the NAS 4000 Series without RAID 5?

Yes, you can the NAS 4000 Series for JBOD (just a bunch of disks), spanned, spanned and mirrored, or striped disk configurations.

RAID 5 configuration

June 25th, 2009 No comments

raid5 Hi all, can anyone tell about RAID-5 configuration? if we have ten hard disks to connect with the help of RAID-5, how to we ‘ll do it and how many hard disks failure it will support for fault tolrance?

Originally Posted by engineer_vinay
can anyone tell about RAID-5 configuration?

RAID5 is based on parity so is called as Parity RAID. It checks data using parity. There is no dedicated drive here like RAID level 3 & 4, so parity information is distributed among all drives. So it is known as rotating parity array. It requires minimum three drives for implementation & no. of…