Compaq's RAIDs and RAID terminology

Hi List,

Does someone have experience with Compaq's RAID controllers? I've inhereted a "22x7" system where
RAID arrays are supported by SmartArray 5300 controller. Last weekend I had an opportunity to add a
spare disk to the RAID5 array which consisted of 7 disks. I was amazed when the Compaq RAID Configuration Utility showed 32K stripe size for that array. The
only my assumption is they use the term "stripe size" instead of "strip size". I was looking through
some articles about RAID configurations and It seems there is a little mess in the English-speaking
RAID terminology. Because I'm not an English-native speaker I'm a little confused about that. So my
question is

Am I correct saying that:
- strip size means size of data that reside on an each particular disk-member in a
stripe set
- stripe size means total size of data across all disks in a stripe set

• stripe-width means the same as stripe size
• ??? Do you know another terms?

Thanks,
Ed

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