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Almost all SME, (Small to Medium Enterprises), have turned to RAID-configured storage on their servers in recent years for their mission-critical applications and data. In spite of being considered highly fault-tolerant, RAID does fail. RAID can fail due to component failure (including hard drives and controller cards), operating and application corruption, but most commonly, simple user error, often leaving the data unusable and corrupted.
RAID's are amongst the most complex media devices to recover data from. The data configurations are quite complex such as striped, volume, spanned etc. Sadly, different manufacturers will often use bespoke configuration applications that can add further complexity.
While state-of-the-art recovery tools and techniques are essential, ultimately it is the experience of both the recovery engineers and the software coders that makes the difference between a successful recovery and a failure. Successful RAID recovery often depends on an extremely fine-tuned sense of pattern recognition that is developed over years and years of recovering data from complex RAID configurations.
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RAID
Level 53 requires a minimum of 5 drives to implement
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 Advantages
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 Disadvantages
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RAID
53 should really be called 'RAID 03' because it is implemented as a striped
(RAID level 0) array whose segments are RAID 3 arrays
RAID 53 has the same fault tolerance as RAID 3 as well as the same fault
tolerance overhead
High data transfer rates are achieved thanks to its RAID 3 array segments
Maybe a good solution for sites who would have otherwise gone with RAID 3 but
need some additional performance boost
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Very
expensive to implement
All disk spindles must be synchronized, which limits the choice of drives
Byte striping results in poor utilization of formatted capacity
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Thanks to AC&NC for their technical input into this page.
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