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RAID Array 3000 Controller 2-15
Compaq Confidential Need to Know Required
Writer: Bob Young Project: RAID Array 3000 Controller Shelf Hardware Users Guide Comments:
Part Number: EK-SMCPQ-UG. D01 File Name: c-ch2 RAID Array 3000 Controller.doc Last Saved On: 12/4/00 1:08 PM
In the event of a single drive failure, a RAID 4 array will continue to operate
in degraded mode. If the failed drive is a data drive, writes will continue as
normal, except no data will be written to the failed drive. Reads will
reconstruct the data on the failed drive by performing an exclusive-or
operation on the remaining data in the stripe and the parity for that stripe. If
the failed drive is a parity drive, writes will occur as normal except no parity
will be written. Reads will simply retrieve data from the data disks. There will
be no deterioration in controller performance while a RAID set is in degraded
mode.
In general, RAID 4 is best suited for applications such as graphics, imaging, or
video that call for reading and writing large, sequential blocks of data.
However, you may find that RAID 4 is preferable to RAID 5 even for
applications characterized by many small I/O operations, such as transaction
processing. This is due to the controllers intelligent caching, which efficiently
handles small I/O reads and writes, and to the relatively less complex
algorithms needed to implement RAID 4.
The benefits of RAID 4 disappear when you have many, small I/O operations
scattered randomly and widely across the disks in the array. RAID 4s fixed
parity disk becomes a bottleneck in such applications, as the following
example illustrates. Lets say the host instructs the controller to make two
small writes. The writes are widely scattered, involving two different stripes
and different disk drives. Ideally, you would like both writes to take place at
the same time, but RAID 4 makes this impossible, since the writes must take
turns accessing the fixed parity drive. For this reason, RAID 5 is the better
choice for widely scattered, small write operations.
CAUTION: RAID 4 can withstand a single failure and handle I/O activity without
interruption in degraded mode until the failed drive is rebuilt. If a second drive
fails while the RAID set is in degraded mode, the entire RAID set will fail.
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