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Technology BackgroundPegasus32 Product Manual
RAID 50 - Striping of Distributed Parity
Advantages Disadvantages
• High Read data transaction rate
• Medium Write data transaction rate
• Good aggregate transfer rate
• High reliability
• Supports large volume sizes
• Higher disk overhead than RAID 5
(two drives as hot spares)
Recommended Applications for RAID 50 include applications that require high fault tolerance and
good I/O performance.
• File and Application servers
• Transaction processing
• Ofceapplicationwithmanyusersaccessingsmallles