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Appendix B: RAID Basics
Overview
A Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) is an array of several hard disks
that provide data security and high performance. A RAID system accesses several
hard disks simultaneously, which improves I/O performance over a single hard disk.
Data security is enhanced by a RAID, since data loss due to a hard disk failure is
minimized by regenerating redundant data from the other RAID hard disks.
Benefits
RAID improves I/O performance, and increases data security through fault
tolerance and redundant data storage.
Improved Performance
RAID provides access to several hard disk drives simultaneously, which greatly
increases I/O performance.
Data Security
Hard disk drive failure unfortunately is a common occurrence. A RAID helps prevent
against the loss of data due to hard disk failure. A RAID offers additional hard disk
drives that can avert data loss from a hard disk drive failure. If a hard drive fails, the
RAID volume can regenerate data from the data and parity stored on its other hard
disk drives.
RAID Levels
The Thecus IP storage supports standard RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD. You
choose a RAID level when you create a system volume. The factors for selecting a
RAID level are:
 Your requirements for performance
 Your need for data security
 Number of hard disk drives in the system, capacity of hard disk drives in the
system
The following is a description of each RAID level:
RAID 0
RAID 0 is best suited for applications that need high bandwidth but do not require a
high level of data security. The RAID 0 level provides the best performance of all the
RAID levels, but it does not provide data redundancy.
RAID 0 uses disk striping and breaking up data into blocks to write across all hard
drives in the volume. The system can then use multiple hard drives for faster read
and write. The stripe size parameter that was set when the RAID was created
determines the size of each block. No parity calculations complicate the write
operation.
RAID 1
RAID 1 mirrors all data from one hard disk drive to a second one hard disk drive,
thus providing complete data redundancy. However, the cost of data storage
capacity is doubled.

Thecus N4200 Specifications

General

RAID levels	0, 1, 5, 6, 10, JBOD
Storage drive capacity	- GB
Supported file systems	Ext3, XFS, ZFS
Storage drive interface	Serial ATA
Total installed storage capacity	8 TB
Number of storage drives installed	-
Number of storage drives supported	4
Internal memory	1 GB
Internal memory type	DDR2
Bus type	DMI
Stepping	B0
Tjunction	100 °C
Processor code	SLBLA
Processor cache	1 MB
Processor cores	2
Processor model	D510
System bus rate	- GT/s
Processor family	Intel Atom®
Processor socket	BGA 559
Processor codename	Pineview
Processing Die size	87 mm²
Processor frequency	1.66 GHz
Processor cache type	L2
Processor lithography	45 nm
Processor manufacturer	Intel
Processor package size	22 x 22 mm
Conflict-Free processor	No
Processor operating modes	64-bit
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	13 W
Number of processors installed	1
Physical Address Extension (PAE)	32 bit
Memory bandwidth supported by processor (max)	6.4 GB/s
Maximum internal memory supported by processor	4 GB
Link/Act LED	Yes
Expansion slots	PCI-e x1
Processor ARK ID	43098
Networking features	Gigabit Ethernet
Compatible operating systems	- Windows 2000/7/XP/2003/Vista; - UNIX/Linux; - Mac OS 9 / X
Maximum data transfer rate	1000 Mbit/s
Supported network protocols	TCP/IP, Appletalk, SMB/CIFS, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, NFS v3, AFP
Security algorithms	256-bit AES
USB 2.0 ports quantity	USB 2.0 ports have a data transmission speed of 480 Mbps, and are backwards compatible with USB 1.1 ports. You can connect all kinds of peripheral devices to them.
Display type	OLED
Operating temperature (T-T)	5 - 40 °C
Operating relative humidity (H-H)	0 - 80 %
Number of Processing Die Transistors	176 M
Memory channels supported by processor	Single