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One of my friends at school was talking about a RAID, he said there was a RAID 7, as to my knowledge no such thing exists. Could someone clarify? I don't think there is but just making sure.
tricycletoby
Posted 2011-02-01T01:54:24.840
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He could be getting confused in that there are 7 "levels" of RAID, but they are RAID 0 through RAID 6.
There is however a non-standard RAID 7, but it isn't a industry standard like the main levels. You can read up a bit on it here: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/singleLevel7-c.html
There are a number of non-standard RAID levels, if you're interested you can read more on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels
Windos
Posted 2011-02-01T01:54:24.840
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Raid 7 is a trademarked marketing term used by the Storage Computer Corporation. The controller card uses its own CPU and combines striping and RAID-5-like storage.
squircle
Posted 2011-02-01T01:54:24.840
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According to this site https://calomel.org/zfs_raid_speed_capacity.html RAID7 or raidz3 is like RAID5 or RAID6 but with triple parity and can withstand the loss of three drives without risk of loosing data. RAID5 can lose 1 disk, RAID6 can lose 2 disks, & RAID7 can lose 3 disks. The minimum number of disks for a RAID7 volume would be 4 but should really be used with no less then 5.
DarkMatter
Posted 2011-02-01T01:54:24.840
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According to the (United States Patent and Trademark Office) http://tmsearch.uspto.gov The trademark RAID 7 previously used by the Storage Computer Corporation has expired.
– DarkMatter – 2017-06-23T16:47:12.473it seems that Storage Computer Corporation went out of business in 2005 – DarkMatter – 2017-06-23T20:19:04.827
standard Raid levels are from 0 to 6. imo, >6 surely exists as non-standard stacked variants. How many ever there are, I am certain there is yet no Raid over 9000. #GodzillaRAID – Nick – 2018-08-10T01:52:00.823
2On how many powerpoint sales slide sets does a term have to be before it "exists"? – Ian Ringrose – 2011-02-01T11:00:21.480