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; move arrays and logical drives; and perform advanced operations, such as creating a split mirror backup array.
8 Working with maxCache Devices
9 Working with maxCrypto™ Devices
10 Working with Self Encrypting Drive (SED) Based Encryption
11 Working with Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM)
12 Maintaining Physical Devices
13 Monitoring Status and Activity
This section describes how maxView Storage Manager helps you monitor status and activity in your storage space.
14 Managing Your Storage Space
15 Solving Problems
This section describes how to troubleshoot the components in your storage space.
16 Silent Installation on Windows and Linux
17 Configuring SNMP Notifications on Windows and Linux
18 Using the maxView Plugin for VMware vSphere 7 HTML5
19 Using the maxView Plugin for VMware vSphere 8 HTML5
20 Using maxView Storage Manager with HBAs and Non-RAID Mode Controllers
21 Selecting the Best RAID Level
- 21.1 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 disk drives and your requirements for performance and reliability.
- 21 Non-redundant Logical Drives (RAID 0)
- 21.2 RAID 1 Logical Drives
- 21.3 RAID 1 Triple Logical Drives
- 21 RAID 10 Logical Drives
- 21.4 RAID 10 Triple Logical Drives
- 21 RAID 5 Logical Drives
- 21 RAID 50 Logical Drive
- 21 RAID 6 Logical Drives
- 21.5 RAID 60 Logical Drives
22 Icons At-a-Glance
23 Smart Controller Device Status
24 Display Properties of a Controller, Array, Logical Device, and a Physical Device
25 maxView Video Tutorials
26 Revision History
Microchip Information
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21 RAID 5 Logical Drives

A RAID 5 logical drive is built from a minimum of three disk 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 disk drive fails. In RAID 5 logical drives, parity data (represented by Ps in the next figure) is striped evenly across the disk drives with the stored data.

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

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