{"id":12983,"date":"2026-01-14T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mainehost.com\/?p=12983---0a198137-d229-4a19-9a3d-9b759275d527"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:42:25","slug":"why-raid-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/news\/why-raid-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Raid Drives?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RAID<\/h3>\n

First we’ll explain the different types of Raid Drive Series:<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (Independent) Disks.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"RaidOn most situations you will be using one of the following four levels of RAIDs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  • RAID 0 – 2 Plus Drives<\/li>\n
  • RAID 1 – 2 Plus Drives<\/li>\n
  • RAID 5 – 3 Plus Drives<\/li>\n
  • RAID 10 (also known as RAID 1+0)\u00a0 – 4 Plus Drives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Here we explains the main difference between these raid levels along with an easy to understand diagram.<\/p>\n

    In all the diagrams mentioned below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    • A, B, C, D, E and F – represents blocks<\/li>\n
    • p1, p2, and p3 – represents parity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
      \n

      RAID LEVEL 0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

      \"raid-0\"
      \nFollowing are the key points to remember for RAID level 0.<\/h3>\n
        \n
      • Minimum 2 disks.<\/li>\n
      • Excellent performance ( as blocks are striped ).<\/li>\n
      • No redundancy ( no mirror, no parity ).<\/li>\n
      • Don’t use this for any critical system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
        \n

        RAID LEVEL 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n

        \"raid-1\"<\/p>\n

        Following are the key points to remember for RAID level 1.<\/h3>\n
          \n
        • Minimum 2 disks.<\/li>\n
        • Good performance ( no striping. no parity ).<\/li>\n
        • Excellent redundancy ( as blocks are mirrored ).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
          \n

          RAID LEVEL 5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

          \"raid-5\"
          \nFollowing are the key points to remember for RAID level 5.<\/h3>\n
            \n
          • Minimum 3 disks.<\/li>\n
          • Good performance ( as blocks are striped ).<\/li>\n
          • Good redundancy ( distributed parity ).<\/li>\n
          • Best cost effective option providing both performance and redundancy. Use this for DB that is heavily read oriented. Write operations will be slow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
            \n

            \u00a0RAID LEVEL 10<\/h2>\n

            \"raid10\"<\/p>\n

            Following are the key points to remember for RAID level 10.<\/h3>\n
              \n
            • Minimum 4 disks.<\/li>\n
            • This is also called as “stripe of mirrors”<\/li>\n
            • Excellent redundancy ( as blocks are mirrored )<\/li>\n
            • Excellent performance ( as blocks are striped )<\/li>\n
            • If you can afford the dollar, this is the BEST option for any mission critical applications (especially databases).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              First we’ll explain the different types of Raid Drive Series: RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive (Independent) Disks. On most situations you will be using one of the following four levels of RAIDs. RAID 0 – 2 Plus Drives RAID 1 – 2 Plus Drives RAID 5 – 3 Plus Drives RAID 10 (also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67721,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions\/67721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainehost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}