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OWC RAID Central
1.
Select Expansion Slot Type or System
Expresscard
PCI/PCI-X
PCIe
MacBook
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Apple Xserve
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2.
Select Your Capacity
Up to 4TB
4TB to 10TB
10TB to 16TB
16TB+
RAID 0+1/ RAID 10
"Mirrored Stripe" & "Striped Mirror" – Faster, Large, & Safe/Redundant Storage
Increased speed and size, but also benefit from redundancy.
Array shows up as 1 logical volume on your desktop.
Perfect For
Anyone wanting the speed and large capacity of striping, but the safety/protection of mirroring.
Store music, photos, videos
Anything that takes time to create
Anything that is difficult to replace
Anyone needing faster data rates
Protection
Essentially using both
RAID 0
&
RAID 1
arrays together.
Apple's Disk Utility and SoftRAID® can do
RAID 0+1
&
RAID 10
as well as hardware RAID systems.
Learn More About the Types of RAID
RAID 0 (Stripe)
RAID 1 (Mirror)
RAID 10 (1+0)
RAID 5 (Stripe with Parity)
JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives)
Span (N-RAID)
RAID Concepts 101
Host Controller Types
Advanced Features
Definitions:
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RAID 0 (Stripe)
Data is split into blocks over two or more drives at same time for high speed and large capacity.
Capacity
Data Safety
Performance
Learn About RAID 0
RAID 1 (Mirror)
Data is written at same time to two drives only for highest level of data safety and redundancy.
Capacity
Data Safety
Performance
Learn About RAID 1
RAID 10 (1+0)
Data is Striped (RAID 0) over two Mirrored sets (RAID 1) of drives for fast redundancy.
Capacity
Data Safety
Performance
Learn About RAID 10
RAID 5 (Stripe with Parity)
Data is Striped (RAID 0) while incorporating parity over three or more drives for the best combination of speed, capacity, and redundancy.
Capacity
Data Safety
Performance
Learn About RAID 5
JBOD
(Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives)
Each disk shows up as an individual logical volume on the computer. A 4 bay unit populated with drives will have 4 logical drives show up on the computer.
Capacity
Data Safety
Performance
Learn About JBOD
Span (N-RAID)
Combines capacity of two or more drives of varying size without any RAID data distribution scheme into one logical desktop volume.
Capacity
Data Safety
Performance
Learn About Span/N-RAID