| Description | Minimum # of Drives |
Benefits | |
| RAID 0 | Data Striping | 2 | Highest Performance without data protection |
| RAID 1 | Disk Mirroring | 2 | Data Protection through 100% data duplication |
| RAID 1/0 | Mirroring and Data Striping |
4 | Highest Performance with Data Protection |
| RAID 5 | Data Striping with Rotating Parity |
3 | Highest Performance with Data Protection |