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Storage devices. Optical drives. Floppy disk. Hard disk. Components of Hard disks. RAID technology. Levels in RAID technology. Summary.
Storage devices
Some of the storage devices are as follows:
FLOPPY DISK
CD/DVD drives
Some of the IDE hard disk are as follows: ATA-1 ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface) ATA-2 ATA-3: ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5: Enhanced IDE (EIDE Fast ATA Ultra ATA
Improved performance
RAID 0 level
RAID
0 level specifies data stripping. It means that data will split up into several smaller parts without any parity. It requires minimum 2 number of hard disks to operate. RAID 0 level provides good performance over single disk storage.
RAID 1 level
Specifies data
Mirroring(same copy of data in all hard disks) but without any parity. This means data is copied to multiple disk but there is no error correction of RAID1 level like RAID 0 level also requires at least two hard disk drivers.
data is split across multiple hard disk with parity bit is stored in the same hard disk . If any data is lost then we can recover disk. If any data is lost then we can recover the whole data with the help of parity bit. Minimum 2 HDD is required
RAID3 level
RAID 3 level specifies data stripping with dedicated parity disk . This means RAID 3 level generates parity and dedicated one of its hard disk drive for storing the parity information. Minimum 3 HDD is required for building RAID3 level .
RAID 3: XOR
Exit Hamming Code,
0 0 1 1
0 1 0 1
0 1 1 0
If ????2 XOR 11002 = 01102, Then 11002 XOR 01102 = ????2 = 10102 Thus we can use XOR results to recover lost data
Advantages:
High Read/Write
Disadvantages:
Transaction rate slowed
Transfer Rates Disk failures dont slow the system Low Ratio of Data Disks to Parity Disks
RAID 3: Uses
Video Production High-end Video and Image Editing Other uses that require high throughput of data
RAID 4 level
RAID 4 level is similar to RAID 3 except with a difference . The difference is that :
In RAID 3 we stripes
RAID 4: Uses
Advantages:
Very high read rates
Multiple files read at once
Disadvantages:
Very slow write rates
Even small writes fill up
Uses:
Web Servers, and other
RAID 5 level
RAID 5 took all the advantages from RAID 0-RAID 4 and build up this technology . The advantages are as follows: RAID 0-Stripping. RAID 1-Mirroring. RAID 2-Stripping bit level parity. RAID 3-Stripping with dedicated parity. RAID 4-Block level parity. Therefore , RAID 5 level has got highest popularity as it uses all the level and it is used widely.
RAID 5
Highest Read data transaction rate Medium Write data transaction rate Most complex controller design Used For Server Applications.
RAID 10
RAID 10
Uses multiple (mirrored) RAID 1 in a single array Data striped across all mirrored sets Very high fault tolerance High performance rate
Advantages of RAID
The foremost advantage of using a RAID drive is that it
increases the performance and reliability of the system. The RAID drive is a credible example that could be used in a server. The RAID increases the parity check and thus it regularly checks for any possibility of a system crash. Disk stripping is also a hot topic when we discuss about the RAID drives. The performance is much highlighting and increases a lot when the disk stripping is done. The mirroring is the complete duplication of the data. Or in the other sense the mirroring is the 100% duplication of the data on two drives.
Disadvantages of Raid
A major disadvantage regarding the RAID drive is that
there needs to be written the drivers for a Network Operating System (NOS). Hence the major fact and also the most important usage of the RAID system is that it is essentially designed and extensively used in a server. Another disadvantage regarding the RAID is that it is very much difficult for an administrator to configure the RAID system. The ability to dynamically enlarge the RAID server is also complex process; especially for those administrators who are the IS managers and also the LAN administrators.
Summary
RAID level Mirroring 0 No 1 Yes Striping Block No Parity No Min . drives Key features 2 Fastest, but lacks data protection. 32No 2 Requires double capacity but fastest protected solution. Dedicated 3 Distributes each block across disks. Dedicated 3 Larger blocks improve performance. Dedicated parity disk is potential bottleneck. Distributed 3 Eliminates parity bottleneck.
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ANJAN KUAMR.B. -Guided by Mr. Pintunath .