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IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning
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IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning

by Cathy Warrick, Craig Gordon, Benoit Granier, Keitaro Imai, Rosemary McCutchen, Brannen Proctor, Jim Sedgwick, Paulus Usong, Mary Ann Vandermark, John Wickes
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
530 pages
18h 34m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 2. Hardware configuration planning 37
RAID 5 is well suited for random access to data in small blocks. Most data transfers, reads, or
writes, involve only one disk and hence operations can be performed in parallel and provide a
higher throughput. In addition to this efficiency for random transaction operations, the RAID 5
implementation of the DS6000 is able to work in a
strip write style when processing
sequential operations for maximum sequential throughput.
2.8.3 RAID 10 array
The other possible RAID implementation in a DS6000 is RAID 10 (also known as RAID 1+0).
A RAID 10 array consists of a set of disks for
user data and their mirrors ...
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