Performance Analysis of RAID Implementations

There are many RAID configurations and two types of RAID implementations. To decide which configuration or implementation is suitable to an application, the performance information of RAID system are required. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of RAID system. For evaluating the performance, we use many parameters composed of two RAID configurations, two implementations, and two types of storage devices. Two configurations, which we use, are level 0 and 5. Two implementations are hardware and software RAID. As a result, if we want to construct the RAID level 0, it is good decision to use the software RAID. And the overhead of the software RAID level 5 is higher than that of hardware RAID.