1 About this Guide
2 Introduction to maxView Storage Manager
This section introduces the maxView Storage Manager software, explains the concept of “storage space” and provides a checklist of getting-started tasks.
3 Installing maxView Storage Manager
4 Exploring maxView Storage Manager
This section familiarizes you with the main features of the maxView Storage Manager graphical user interface. It describes how to start and login to maxView Storage Manager. It also explains how to get help and log out of maxView Storage Manager when you are finished working with the application.
5 Building Your Storage Space
6 Protecting Your Data
7 Modifying Your Storage Space
This section provides additional scenarios for creating and modifying arrays and logical drives. It explains how to check your logical drives for bad or inconsistent data; optimize controller and logical drive performance; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.
8 Working with Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)
9 Maintaining Physical Devices
10 Monitoring Status and Activity
This section describes how maxView Storage Manager helps you monitor status and activity in your storage space.
11 Managing Your Storage Space
12 Solving Problems
This section describes how to troubleshoot the components in your storage space.
13 Silent Installation on Linux
14 Configuring SNMP Notifications on Linux
15 Selecting the Best RAID Level
- 15.1 Comparing RAID Levels
  Use this table to select the RAID levels that are most appropriate for the logical drives on your storage space, based on the number of available physical drives and your requirements for performance and reliability.
- 15 Non-redundant Logical Drives (RAID 0)
- 15.2 RAID 1 Logical Drives
- 15 RAID 10 Logical Drives
- 15 RAID 5 Logical Drives
- 15 RAID 50 Logical Drive
16 Icons At-a-Glance
17 Smart Controller Device Status
18 Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device and a Physical Device
19 Revision History
Microchip Information

15 RAID 5 Logical Drives

A RAID 5 logical drive is built from a minimum of three physical drives, and uses data striping and parity data to provide redundancy. Parity data provides data protection, and striping improves performance.

Parity data is an error-correcting redundancy that's used to re-create data if a physical drive fails. In RAID 5 logical drives, parity data (represented by Ps in the next figure) is striped evenly across the physical drives with the stored data.

Drive segment size is limited to the size of the smallest physical drive in the logical drive. For instance, an array with two 250 GB physical drives and two 400 GB physical drives can contain 750 GB of stored data and 250 GB of parity data, as shown in this figure.

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