Yes, the Lenovo ThinkStation P360 Ultra supports RAID configurations that can provide a balance of performance and redundancy:
RAID 0 for Performance
- The P360 Ultra supports RAID 0 striping across multiple M.2 NVMe SSDs- This allows splitting data across drives for significantly faster read/write speeds
- However, RAID 0 offers no redundancy, so data loss occurs if any drive fails
RAID 1 for Redundancy
- The P360 Ultra also supports RAID 1 mirroring of M.2 NVMe SSDs- This creates an exact copy of data on two drives
- If one drive fails, the other can still provide access to the data
- RAID 1 sacrifices some performance compared to RAID 0
RAID 5 for Balanced Performance and Redundancy
- RAID 5 is supported on the P360 Ultra with at least three drives- It stripes data across drives with distributed parity for redundancy
- This provides good read/write speeds and can tolerate a single drive failure
- RAID 5 offers a middle ground between the performance of RAID 0 and redundancy of RAID 1
So in summary, the P360 Ultra's RAID capabilities allow optimizing for either performance (RAID 0), redundancy (RAID 1), or a combination of both (RAID 5) to best match the needs of the workload. The specific RAID level chosen will depend on the relative importance of speed vs data protection.
Citations:[1] https://www.pitsdatarecovery.net/blog/raid-redundancy-over-performance/
[2] https://thinkstation-specs.com/thinkstation/p360-ultra/
[3] https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/p360_ultra_ug_en.pdf
[4] https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkStation/ThinkStation_P360_Ultra/ThinkStation_P360_Ultra_Spec.pdf
[5] https://www.lap4worx.de/media/pdf/37/80/4c/Lenovo-ThinkStation-P360-Ultra-Hardware-Wartungshandbuch.pdf