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4 MediaShield User’s Guide – Version 1.0
C
HAPTER 1
About NVIDIA® MediaShield™
RAID 1
InaRAID1array,everyreadandwriteiscarriedoutinparallelacrosstwodiskdrives.
Themirrored—orbackup—copyofthedatacanresideonthesamediskoronasecond
redundantdriveinthearray.RAID1providesahotstandbycopyofdataiftheactive
volumeordriveiscorruptedorbecomesunavailableduetoahardwarefailure.RAID1
techniquescanbe appliedforhighavailabilitysolutions,orasaformofautomaticbackup
thateliminatestediousmanualbackupstomoreexpensiveandlessreliablemedia.
RAID1providescompletedataredundancy,butatthe
costofdoublingtherequireddata
storagecapacity,resultingin50%capacityutilization.Performanceisroughlythesameas
forasingledrive,althoughinsomeinstancesthedualwritemaybesomewhatslower.
RAID 0+1
RAID0drivescanbemirroredusingRAID1techniques,resultinginaRAID0+1solution
forimprovedperformanceplusresiliency
Thecontrollercombinestheperformanceofdatastriping(RAID0)andthefaulttolerance
ofdiskmirroring(RAID1).Dataisstripedacrossmultipledrivesandduplicatedon
anotherset
ofdrives.
RAID 5
RAID5
1
stripesbothdataandparityinformationacrossthreeormoredrives.Itwrites
dataandparityblocksacrossallthedrivesinthearray.Faulttoleranceismaintainedby
ensuringthattheparityinformationforanygivenblockofdataisplacedonadifferent
drivefromthoseusedto
storethedataitself
JBOD
JBODstandsfor“JustaBunchofDisks”.Eachdriveisaccessedasifitwereonastandard
SCSIhostbusadapter.Thisisusefulwhenasingledriveconfigurationisneeded,butit
offersnospeedimprovementorfaulttolerance
1. RAID 5 is supported on select boards only. Please check with your motherboard manufacturer to deter-
mine whether RAID 5 is supported for the type and model of your motherboard.
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