RAID Level 0+1

 

Striping and Mirroring across multiple RAID levels

RAID level 0+1 provides redundancy by writing all data to four or more drives. RAID level 0+1 combines the benefits of RAID 0 and RAID 1.  This offers both striping and mirroring with no parity generation.  The RAID 0+1 also provides high performance and resilience to RAID 5.

Advantages

No parity generation

 Easy to implement

 Utilises full disk capacity

4 drives minimum

Higher performance than RAID 5

Disadvantages

In efficient use of disk space

 High disk overhead / Expensive

Expensive to deploy

RAID level 0+1

Application

General File servers, Imaging applications, Medium size database applications