text: phorum - Schooling Options - Re: Schools in Wellington Schooling Options New Topic | Go to Top | Go to Topic | Search Newer Topic | Older Topic Schools in Wellington Author: Anon Date: 17-08-11 21:14 We are moving to the Wellington area at the end of next year and are trying to find out what primary schools cater to gifted children. Our son is 5yr and we are new to understanding the schooling avaiable for gifted children. We have heard a little bit about Pinehaven Primary School in Upper Hutt which is near where we would like to live, does anyone know much about this school or other schools in the area? Reply To This Message Re: Schools in Wellington Author: Terry Date: 13-09-11 19:51 I've been waiting for someone to reply to this for ages as I would love answers too - does anyone have any ideas of which schools cater well to gifted children in the Wellington/Porirua/Kapiti area? Thanks Reply To This Message Re: Schools in Wellington Author: LindaM Date: 18-09-11 20:48 Unfortunately I have not heard about any public schools in Wellington that are renowned in this respect. My daughter's school is at least very accepting of her going out of the school to do extra-curricular things like ODS and horse-riding (for her dyspraxia). The principal is quite big on encouraging children to do extra activities like "eco-nuts" and young leaders etc - he/they see this as catering for gifted kids. I think this is quite a prevalent philosophy around Wellington. I've decided there's no use disputing this and try and use it to our advantage as per above. At least they don't try and argue with me that she's gifted although there's never been any particular acknowledgement either. Good luck with finding something that works for you and your son. Reply To This Message Re: Schools in Wellington Author: Sarah Date: 09-11-11 11:34 I am in the same boat, looking at moving to Wellington, so have been researching schools that would be a good fit for gifted kids as well (my son is 4 1/2). Montessori seems to be a good option as it allows children to lear at their own level - there's Wa Ora Montessori School in Lower Hutt (private) as well as Montessori units at Behampore, Otari and Tawa Schools. Entrance is at 6 years and they prefer kids to have gone to a Montessori preschool prior to that. Options in Main stream schools ... There seems to be One Day School and the Gifted kids Programme, both of which take kids out of their main school one day a week and do extension activities with them (from year 2), so arguably any school that feeds into those programmes should be ok. Personally, I think that if the school is a HOST of the One Day School, this speaks volumes for their attitude on gifted kids. http://www.giftededucation.org.nz/odslocations.html I have no first hand experience of any of these schools but hope that this info helps to get you started. There are some older posts on this site with useful information. I would also appreciate any suggestions from people with children currently attending schools in Wellington. Reply To This Message Re: Schools in Wellington Author: Alex Date: 10-11-11 23:47 Our son is 6 and he goes to Crofton Downs primary school. They have been absolutely fantastic. They were recommended to us when our son went to Small Poppies classes by other parents whose gifted kids went there. It is a small public school. There are not zoned so it is not required that you live in the area. For our son they initiated extension in maths and Japanese (they do foreign language classes from Year 1) and also Correspondence school for his maths. They are very understanding of our son's needs and work well together with parents on any challenges. They are also very supportive of a child attending One Day School which lots of other schools we talked to are not so keen on if it means they will miss one day of school. We have tried Wa Ora Montessori preschool but it did not suit our son because he loves talking and arguing with others (teachers in particular). However, we have friends whose gifted kids went to Wa Ora school and really liked it. I would suggest to go and visit schools that you think might be a good fit for your son and have a chat with the principal. This helps a lot with forming your own impressions about the place and the culture there. Good luck! Reply To This Message Re: Schools in Wellington Author: C Date: 11-11-11 22:00 I wish I could be more help, but my son won't start school for another 6 months. My research in South Wellington has made me keen on Clifton Terrace Model School, Lyall Bay and Island Bay, but that's just research not experience. I would, however, keep well away from Newtown Primary (which hosts the GKP), as the principal's response to my question about what they did with gifted kids was "we had a gifted child a while ago and he was great as he took responsibility for himself and brought in lego from home to do when he was bored." Reply To This Message Re: Schools in Wellington Author: Bobchannz Date: 23-11-11 11:13 We looked at our three local schools - Newtown, Berhamphore and Lyall Bay. The ERO reports on the first two haven't been that great and a friend who works at the Ministry of Education was very down on them. She had though pulled her son out of private school to attend Lyall Bay. My daughter started at Lyall Bay a couple of weeks ago. I had a meeting with the acting Principal and Head of the Junior School (who seems to have an interest in Gifted kids). I had a whole list of things that I wanted to discuss with them - and to my delight they bought up all of them, as well as a few extras. They were very happy to have accleration as an option and the school has a philosophy of composite classes for most of the school to allow for a range of learning abilities in each room. They offer onsite extension in French and Music. They were very supportive of ODS and dual enrolment. The plan for my daughter was to match her up with a senior student for some reading and to create a higher level maths group taken from across the new entrant classes. On her second day her teacher provided me with a copy of the NZ Association for Gifted Kids magazine. I thought it was quite a nice way to acknowledge her learning needs. In practice though none of this is really happening, but I'm comfortable with the reasons why at the moment. She is in the top reading group, but reading 'the cat sat on the mat' kind of stuff. However, the teacher has explained that she wants to get her used to working in groups, and that the writing work that they do springboards from the reading - and she does need to practice her writing. The teacher is happy so long as my daughter gets books that do challenge her at home. We do persist with reading the little books as practice - even if she has already memorised them or prefers to sing them to add some spice! We have flagged the extension activities while she settles into school. She is still very tired at the end of each day as even if the material isn't challenging learning all the rules in her new environment are. Her teacher generously gives her time most days to explain to me what is going on, and we have formal teacher interviews in a couple of weeks. Overall I'm pretty happy that they will work to meet her needs, and that in fact, they find it an interesting professional challenge. I really think having your own psychologist report going in is crucial - it really got their attention. It is most likely Lyall Bay will become a zoned school from next year. Reply To This Message Re: Schools in Wellington Author: Rachelle Date: 29-02-12 21:31 we moved down to Wellington just for Wa Ora Montessori, as they can learn at their own pace and it goes through to age 18 as of this year. My son tried three very different local schools and he was seen as disruptive (bored) and didn't fit in but after a year is happy and fullfilled, I think it was worth such a big move. Although you pay a donation of about $2,600 per child a year 33% can be claimed back on your tax, so not too expensive Reply To This Message Re: Schools in Wellington Author: Gilliand150 Date: 14-03-12 11:25 Author: Bobchannz Now that your daughter has settled in, has the school followed through on the options you discussed? We are just starting to investigate other schools, as I sent my child to the local school that other people I know had sent their child to and were happy buy they don't really have the interest or resources to help gifted child. Reply To This Message Re: Schools in Wellington Author: Bobchannz Date: 13-06-12 21:03 Hi Gillian, Sorry - took ages to see your post! Yes, they have been pretty good. Her teacher this year is very organised and hard working - my daughter was tested quite a few times in the first few weeks around reading in particular and the teacher put together an extension book for her. She does comprehension activities while the other children work through the basics. Interestingly there are two other gifted kids who started, and so they are all in the same class. But they haven't actually worked well together (this was interesting) so the kids have their own extension work to do. They do go and do advanced maths with another teacher who takes them out of class. The teacher also set up Studyladder activities (it is a very popular website at the school) and my daughter has really enjoyed those activities. She was home from school today and quite cheerfully polished off a few science units. She was offered a move to another classroom (composite year one/two) recently but we declined. Her teacher is so good, we can't guarantee that the other would be as adaptable. The school has just sent out a survey on giftedness. But I am a little worried about the tone - it asks parents to describe what they think giftedness should mean. I'm going to send in some feedback on that. That being said, they have set up a G&T working group this year, and I'm really happy about that. I'm starting to realise (from my limited experience and from reading this forum) that the teacher makes a huge difference. Reply To This Message Forum List | Threaded View Newer Topic | Older Topic Reply To This Message Your Name: Your E-mail: Subject: cfcd2 Please type the text you see above: Back to NZAGC Home Page


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"I swear, James, I saw it with my own two eyes!" The teenage boy's voice cracked, ascending an octave. Those townspeople in the room gave him mixed reactions; most were humoured, but some looked slightly worried for his mental health.
James let out a short laugh. "Tim, you sure you weren't seein' things?" James was the leader of the town and was build like a fort. He was ex-military, a marine. If anybody was fit to lead their little town, it was him.
"I'm sure. It was flying through the fucking sky. Like there wasn't any gravity. It was heading straight over the mountai-"
The few of the men in the small warehouse seemed to be getting uncomfortable with his story. "I think that's enough for today. Walkers don't fly, Tim. I reckon you need to take a trip to the medical practise and get checked out." James said, now deadly serious. Tim looked around the room, realising that nobody would believe him. "I wasn't seeing things, James." Tim said lowly, turning on his heels and leaving the warehouse with a slam of the hefty fire exit door.
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Charlie placed his groceries on the counter, nodding to Sharon as she scribbled down what he was taking.
"I like this whole 'no money' business. It's kinda' nice. Takin' only what ya need." Sharon said, popping a stick of gum into her mouth before placing the groceries in a paper bag.
"Yeah, me too." Charlie said, rolling up the top of the bag. "So how much have I got left this month?" Charlie asked.
"Umm. Three baskets of food, two bags of powdered milk and five bottles of water." She listed from her little sheet of paper. Charlie thanked her and made his way towards the door of the store.
"Did you hear about what happened to our little Peter yet?" A woman said from behind one of the shelves. "No! What happened?" Another woman exclaimed, stopping Charlie in his tracks.
"Well, he was on his run with Jim, Dan and what's his name.. Randy! Well, they ran into a horde and to put a long story short; he got left behind."
"What? They didn't go back for him?"
"Well apparently the walkers got to him first.."
Charlie quickly left the store, taking in a deep breath of air. Peter was dead. He was the second guy to die on the supply run this month. He could remember talking to Peter only yesterday; Peter telling him how he wasn't really fit for the job, how the rest of his team seemed to be excluding him.
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As he made his way along the street, the sun beating down on the suburban homes where a handful of children played on the front lawns, Charlie heard footsteps against the sidewalk behind him. He turned to see Maria, who stopped breathlessly before him. "Hey Charlie." She smiled before her smile turned to a frown. "You alright? You seem a bit down."
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"Fantastic." Charlie said sarcastically. "I'll get these groceries inside and meet you guys at the Warehouse then."
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He looked up through the massive glass windows of the supermarket. It wouldn't be long now until he turned. He tried to forget what was happening, instead choosing to drop his head back against the empty supermarket shelf and let the sunlight cover his body and soothe his wounds. His eyelids grew heavy from fatigue and blood loss and he could feel himself slipping away.
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Hey Ladies!
I'm new to this group! DH and I just started ttc. We have a 19 month old which we conceived easily.
I had some issues since coming off the pill in May. I didn't get my period for four months so the dr gave me the provera challenge and all I had was some spotting. The second round of provera didn't produce anything so they referred us to a fertility specialist since we wanted to start ttc. I started taking Chaste Tree Berry 2 weeks ago and 5 days after my BBT stayed consistent and then jumped over half a degree this Monday which was the day before our appt with the specialist. She said it's possible I may have ovulated..although I didn't have much cf and I usually do when I'm ready to ovulate so I'm not sure. Either way we are just waiting until Nov 19th for me to either get my period, a positive pt or find out what the heck is wrong with my hormones via blood work.
Can someone tell me what BFP stands for and AF? Also whats BD? I'm assuming it's sex but just wondering what it stands for. There are so many abbrev. on the boards it's hard to tell what people are talking about. lol Also has anyone taken chaste tree berry when ttc?? Just curious if I'm wasting my time on it and if I am pregnant now and don't know yet if I should go off it.
Good morning ladies :)
2 more days!
There was a lot of yummy food talk last night ;)
Tara: That's great you got to workout AND watch tv :) MMM, PB kiss cookies ;) GL today, what time is your appt?
Amber: OOh, there's nothing like fresh bread :) Usually it's too late after O to BD, so before is best. After a +OPK those next 24-48 hours are crucial!
Alix: He really is, we're so lucky :) Oh, I hope so! I loved How to Train Your Dragon too :) How do you like your Nook? I'm looking into getting one. How cool that you made a cover for it :) Owen's so cute, kids say the darnedst things huh ;)
Simone: Oh gosh, I hear you on the headaches and bloating :( I hope you feel better hun ♥
Christine: Thanks darlin' ♥ :) I keep getting tempted to bring one of the tests from here home and check before Sat, FF is telling me to test tomorrow, I don't know what I'm going to do :P Ha ha, you know what they say new house new baby ;) FX'd it goes through!
Love and ((HUGS)) to you all ♥
Gill: Hi! Welcome, that's a nice family picture you have :) I am all too familiar with Provera, it's the only thing I can take to induce a new cycle. It's strange that it didn't bring on much of a period for you though. Glad you're getting the ball rolling with the specialist. Hmm, you MAY have O'd, especially with the temp rise :) FX'd you caught that eggie and AF will stay away! BFP is big fat positive (pregnancy test), AF is aunt flow or your period and BD is baby dancing :) I haven't heard of chaste tree berry, is that an herbal supplement?
Amber- Mmmm, bread sounds so good! Can't wait for your result this month!
Alix- Hope your nook stops glitching. I have an old one and ti does it too sometimes.
Christine- That's exciting news on the house, too!
Nicole- My appt is at 1pm PST. I should be back sometime around 2ish.
Gill- Welcome to the group! I hope it doesn't take you long to ttc this go around. I know how frustrating coming off BCP's can be. I've been there myself. I had unusually long cycles for the first year off BCP's. They just started evening out when I started using clomid. We are a month away from 3 years trying with one MC (miscarriage) which was a year ago. I haven't heard of chaste tree berry....what's it suppose to accomplish? I'll add you to the board for Nov. 19th. :) Oh, there is also a thread with a lot of abbreviations, too. I saw Nicole posted what those two were. Hope that helps!
AFM- Gonna lounge a little before our US today. KMFC we can trigger and do IUI soon!
Tara: Oh I hope you're ready to trigger! (you were on CD16 in the last cycle) Dr. B will probably want to give you the full dose of HCG then if you'll be doing IUI (maybe?) That would be Sat! FX'd!!!
Hi Ladies!
I'm new to this group, Gill (gillfitness) and I are cousins :)
DH and I are in our second cycle of TTC our first child. I have a 28-30 day cycle and I haven't been on BCPs in 4 years. Last month I used clear blue digital OPKs. I got a smiley face on day 14 and BDd, got AF 2 weeks later. I think we should have also tried the day after because the LH surge is usually 24-36 hours prior to ovulation? I'm expecting to ovulate around 11/12 and will be expecting AF 11/26. Hoping for a BFP then, keeping my fingers crossed for my cousin and everyone else on here!
Gil: welcome. It's always nice to have a new member. Theses ladies on here are awesome and very supportive. I truly believe I wouldn't have gotten my bfp so soon if it wasn't for them. I'm sure it would have taken longer like my first pregnancy. But they gave me a lot of insight on what I needed to look for. I hope they help, if not just a hearing ear for you.
My name is Haley, im 30 years old. I've been married for 10 years. We have an almost 3 year old son and just found out we are pg with our second.
I bumped the abbreviation list. So if you go to the getting pregnant boards it should be at the top or close to it.
Cara: welcome. you posted while i was writting the other message. Dont want to make everyone read a repeat. so you'll have to take a peak at the Message I wrote to Gill to learn a little about me. But we're glad to have you.
Nicole: I can't wait to hear your results. I'm so excited. Did the fertility clinic tell you to wait till Saturday or was that just the day you chose?
Tara: I hope everything at the ultrasound is good news and your able to do you IUI Soon.
Cara- Welcome!
Nicole- Hopefully we will have a more solid plan. I wasn't exactly sure when he'd actually do the IUI.
Cara: Hi and welcome :) That's great you and Gill are TTC together, maybe you'll be belly buddies ;) You are right, after the surge O happens 24-36 hours so timing BD is so important. The next day is usually the best time!
Haley: The closer Sat comes the more antsy I'm getting ;) The first Beta HCG is always timed perfectly 12 days from the retrieval.
Tara: I hope so! If Dr. B wants to do the IUI this cycle, he will want to schedule it 35 hours after your HCG. GL!


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He is the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, who appeared alongside the al-Qaeda leader in propaganda videos, including one that appeared the morning after September 11, 2001, warning of more attacks.
Now, he's being held in federal detention just blocks away from the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, where he will face terror charges. "He, I know, has been a key member of the organization for a long time, predating the attacks of 9/11, and so I think that his arrest and his indictment is an important symbolic victory," said Zachary Goldman of the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law.
Reportedly captured in Jordan sometime in the last week, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was quietly extradited to the U.S.
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The Obama administration's decision to try him in civilian court and not treat him as an enemy combatant is already sparking a backlash.
Just two years ago, Obama backed off plans to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged September 11th co-conspirators in Lower Manhattan after local officials and Congress loudly objected.
"This administration seems adverse to the idea of treating future captors like this as enemy combatants," said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. "By taking that option off the table, you're putting people like this into federal court, giving them the same constitutional rights as an American citizen. But more than anything else, you're destroying the ability of holding them under the law of war for intelligence-gathering purposes."
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When Awami League Chief Sheikh Hasina announced her election manifesto in a jam-packed hall room on December 12, everyone was listening with rapt attention. Suddenly her supporters gave a huge round of applause breaking the silence. The jubilant applause was a clear message to Hasina, other politicians, foreign diplomats and journalists in the air-conditioned hall room of a five star hotel where the announcement had been made: even after 37 years people are highly emotional about this long-standing issue.
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Houston Astros: Bo Porter Named New Manager for 2013
Late last night news broke that the Houston Astros had named a new Manager and it would be Bo Porter, third base coach of the Washington Nationals. Per a tweet from Zachary Levine of the Houston Chronicle, front office personnel flew to Philadelphia yesterday, where the Nationals were playing to formally offer Porter the job.
Once again the Astros front office had big news flying through the air as most of us slept. They made it official during a 10am press conference at Minute Maid Park this morning. During his statement GM, Jeff Luhnow, stated about Porter, "He is openminded. He is smart and he knows baseball."
Porter, who has been with the Nationals since 2011, was not the guy many of us had in mind for this position, but it's only fair we give him his shot. The powers that be in the Astros front office did a fine job this year of making deals, stocking a desolate farm system, and proving that they have a master plan for returning the Houston nine to the glory the team once knew.
I'll continue to have faith until they prove to me I shouldn't.
In the meantime, Bo Porter and the Nationals are in a race for a championship and Luhnow asked that we all respect that and let him finish the job he has ahead of him. Not that Bo Porter would pick up his phone for me, I would love to ask him a handful of questions.
But for now, we have this: Bo Porter is a 40 year old who lives in Houston during the offseason, so he's a hometown boy, of sorts. He played football at the University of Iowa until he was drafted in the 40th round by the Chicago Cubs in the 1993 draft as an outfielder. He made his major league debut, with the Cubs, in 1999, but would end up going to Oakland in the Rule 5 Draft in 2000. He played for the A's for only 1 season before being claimed off waivers by the Texas Rangers, again, staying there only one season. He played the rest of his career in the minors in the Atlanta Braves and Colorado Rockies systems until his career concluded.
Since leaving the playing field he's done everything from hitting coach in the minors to third base coach in the majors. He's been a managerial candidate for the Marlins and Pirates, but never got to grab the brass ring.
Fangraphs interviewed Porter back in July of this year, calling him a "Future Big League Manager." When asked what his managerial style would be, he said this -
"When people ask what kind of manager I'll be, I always tell them, 'Give me a roster and then I'll tell you how I'm going to manage that ball club.' You can say you're going to be an aggressive manager and that we're going to steal bases and hit-and-run, but if you have six guys in your lineup that can hit 25 home runs, it's probably not a good idea to take too many chances of giving away outs. Conversely, if you have a team that doesn't have a lot of power — but you do have guys who put the ball in play — you can put runners in motion.
"You want to take advantage of the ability that your players have. How you manage shouldn't be etched in stone. You have to play to your strengths and at the same time you have to look at your opponent. If there are things the other team doesn't do well, you want to put your players in a position to take advantage of that. A big part of this game is recognizing advantages, whether you do that with data or with your own eyes."
As of yesterday, Porter's wish came true. I'd say with one heck of a coaching opportunity ahead of him. Many would see the Houston Astros as the team they'd least like to lead, but I'd bet that Porter's looking at it as the opportunity of a lifetime. He gets the chance to prove to the Marlins and the Pirates that they were wrong. That he can turn a team around.
Until he proves me wrong, I'll give Mr. Porter the benefit of the doubt. I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do with a team that has the lowest payroll and highest loss rate in the majors. A team that has too many minor leaguers taking the field each night. A team that has a developing farm system that's talent is a few years out from the show. Yes, he has one heck of a challenge in front of him, but it's one hell of an opportunity.
Welcome to Houston, Bo.
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By: Maria Oliver/Austin Kellerman
Updated: January 6, 2009
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KBCY radio's Terry Diamond says she recently came home to find an urn on her front porch. This wasn't your common abandoned urn, either. The urn came with a note:
"Domi, called many times! Your new home is nice...had to drive back. Take care of Uncle Jack! love Eddy."
It might sound like a silly prank, but Abilene police are taking it seriously. Diamond turned over "Uncle Jack" to them until someone comes forward and claims him.
Diamond seems to think it's the real deal. "Our concern is that someone is expecting this delivery and it got delivered to the wrong house," said Diamond. "So, Uncle Jack is here waiting for you."
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Surprisingly, the best technique does not use the lowest oven temperature, but it does call for seeding the tomatoes.
As the wave of Italian cooking has swept over America, sun-dried tomatoes have become a staple in many kitchens. However, most cooks don't stock them in the pantry as consistently as other staples. This is largely due to their cost, which can range from expensive to exorbitant. Although the original version of these flavorful, partially desiccated tomatoes was truly dried in the sun, these days most commercially dried tomatoes are prepared in dehydrators.
We wanted to see if tomatoes could "sun"-dried in a home oven, eliminating the need for the home cook to buy dried tomatoes or to purchase an expensive dehydrator.
Slicing the tomatoes in half lengthwise before coring them proved useful, as did scooping out all the seeds and gelatinous matter with a teaspoon. Piercing the skin with the tip of a sharp paring knife also yielded good results. In the oven, the tomatoes dried most evenly on a wire rack placed on a foil-lined tray to catch any juices,. This method allowed for maximum air flow, a nod toward the type of drying environment found in a dehydrator. We also found that a moderate oven temperature of 200 degrees worked better than the low temperatures found in many cookbooks.
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Liberals were twice as likely to block, unfriend, or otherwise shutdown political speech they do not like versus moderates (28% versus 14%), and nearly twice as likely to do so versus conservatives (28% versus 16%).
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Standard RAID levels
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The standard RAID levels are a basic set of RAID configurations that employ the techniques of striping, mirroring, or parity to create large reliable data stores from general purpose computer hard disk drives. The most common types today are RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 and variants (mirroring), RAID 5 (distributed parity) and RAID 6 (dual parity).
Alternatives to the above designs include non-standard RAID levels and non-RAID drive architectures. RAID levels and their associated data formats are standardized by the Storage Networking Industry Association in the Common RAID Disk Drive Format (DDF) standard.[1]
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RAID 0[edit]
A RAID 0 (also known as a stripe set or striped volume) splits data evenly across two or more disks (striped) without parity information for speed. RAID 0 was not one of the original RAID levels and provides no data redundancy. RAID 0 is normally used to increase performance, although it can also be used as a way to create a large logical disk out of two or more physical ones.
A RAID 0 can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk. For example, if a 100 GB disk is striped together with a 350 GB disk, the size of the array will be 200 GB (100 GB × 2).
The diagram shows the how data is distributed into Ax stripes to the disks. Accessing the stripes in the order A1, A2, A3, ... provides the illusion of a larger and faster drive. Once the stripe size is defined on creation it needs to be maintained at all times.
While the block size can technically be as small as a byte, it is almost always a multiple of the hard disk sector size of 512 bytes. This lets each drive seek independently when randomly reading or writing data on the disk. How much the drives act independently depends on the access pattern from the file system level. For reads and writes that are larger than the stripe size, such as copying files or video playback, the disks will be seeking to the same position on each disk, so the seek time of the array will be the same as that of a single drive. For reads and writes that are smaller than the stripe size, such as database access, the drives will be able to seek independently. If the sectors accessed are spread evenly between the two drives, the apparent seek time of the array will be half that of a single drive (assuming the disks in the array have identical access time characteristics). The transfer speed of the array will be potentially the transfer speed of all the disks added together, limited only by the speed of the RAID controller. Approaching this limit, however, assumes optimal access patterns and perfect disk operation.
RAID 0 is useful for setups such as large read-only NFS servers where mounting many disks is time-consuming or impossible and redundancy is irrelevant.
RAID 0 is also used in some computer gaming systems where performance is desired and data integrity is not very important. However, real-world tests with computer games have shown that RAID-0 performance gains are minimal, although some desktop applications will benefit.[2][3] Another article examined these claims and concludes: "Striping does not always increase performance (in certain situations it will actually be slower than a non-RAID setup), but in most situations it will yield a significant improvement in performance." [4]
RAID 1[edit]
An exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data on two disks. This is useful when read performance or reliability is more important than data storage capacity. Such an array can only be as big as the smallest member disk. A classic RAID 1 mirrored pair contains two disks (see reliability geometrically) over a single disk. Since each member contains a complete copy and can be addressed independently, ordinary wear-and-tear reliability is raised by the power of the number of self-contained copies.
Essentially, since both disks contain the exact same data, read access can be be conducted to any single disk alone – A1 is the same for disk 0 or disk 1. Alternatively, they can be done like on a RAID 0 pair with an arbitrary stripe size. Writes are simply duplicated for both drives.
Since all the data exists in two or more copies, each with its own hardware, the read performance can go up roughly as a linear multiple of the number of copies. That is, a RAID 1 array of two drives can be reading in two different places at the same time, though not all implementations of RAID 1 do this.[5] To maximize performance benefits of RAID 1, independent disk controllers are recommended, one for each disk. Some refer to this practice as splitting or duplexing (for two disk arrays) or multiplexing (for arrays with more than two disks). When reading, both disks can be accessed independently and requested sectors can be split evenly between the disks. For the usual mirror of two disks, this would, in theory, double the transfer rate when reading. The apparent access time of the array would be half that of a single drive. Unlike RAID 0, this would be for all access patterns, as all the data are present on all the disks. In reality, the need to move the drive heads to the next block (to skip blocks already read by the other drives) can effectively mitigate speed advantages for sequential access. Read performance can be further improved by adding drives to the mirror. Many older IDE RAID 1 controllers read only from one disk in the pair, so their read performance is always that of a single disk. Some older RAID 1 implementations read both disks simultaneously to compare the data and detect errors. The error detection and correction on modern disks makes this less useful in environments requiring normal availability. When writing, the array performs like a single disk, as all mirrors must be written with the data. Note that these are best case performance scenarios with optimal access patterns.
RAID 1 has many administrative advantages. For instance, in some environments, it is possible to "split the mirror," declare one disk as inactive, do a backup of that disk, then "rebuild" the mirror. This is useful in situations where the file system must be constantly available. This requires that the application supports recovery from the image of data on the disk at the point of the mirror split. This procedure is less critical in the presence of the "snapshot" feature of some file systems, in which some space is reserved for changes, presenting a static point-in-time view of the file system. Alternatively, a new disk can be substituted so that the inactive disk can be kept in much the same way as traditional backup. To maintain redundancy during the backup process, some controllers support adding a third disk to an active pair. After the third disk rebuild completes, it is made inactive and backed up as described above.
RAID 2[edit]
A RAID 2 stripes data at the bit (rather than block) level, and uses a Hamming code for error correction. The disks are synchronized by the controller to spin at the same angular orientation (they reach Index at the same time). Extremely high data transfer rates are possible. This is the only original level of RAID that is not currently used.[6][7]
The use of Hamming(7,4) code (four data bits plus three parity bits) also permits using seven disks in RAID 2, with four being used for data storage and three being used for error correction.
RAID 2 is the only standard RAID level, other than some implementations of RAID 6, which can automatically recover accurate data from single-bit corruption in data. Other RAID levels can detect single-bit corruption in data, or can sometimes reconstruct missing data, but cannot reliably resolve contradictions between parity bits and data bits without human intervention.
(Multiple-bit corruption is possible, though extremely rare. RAID 2 can detect, but not repair, double-bit corruption.)
All hard disks eventually implemented Hamming code error correction. This made RAID 2 error correction redundant and unnecessarily complex. Like RAID 3, this level quickly became useless and is now obsolete. There are no commercial applications of RAID 2.[6][7]
RAID 3[edit]
A RAID 3 uses byte-level striping with a dedicated parity disk. RAID 3 is very rare in practice. One of the characteristics of RAID 3 is that it generally cannot service multiple requests simultaneously. This happens because any single block of data will, by definition, be spread across all members of the set and will reside in the same location. So, any I/O operation requires activity on every disk and usually requires synchronized spindles.
In our example, a request for block "A" consisting of bytes A1–A6 would require all three data disks to seek to the beginning (A1) and reply with their contents. A simultaneous request for block B would have to wait.
However, the performance characteristic of RAID 3 is very consistent, unlike that for higher RAID levels.[clarification needed] The size of a stripe is less than the size of a sector or OS block. As a result, reading and writing accesses the entire stripe every time. The performance of the array is therefore identical to the performance of one disk in the array except for the transfer rate, which is multiplied by the number of data drives less the parity drives.
This makes it best for applications that demand the highest transfer rates in long sequential reads and writes, for example uncompressed video editing. Applications that make small reads and writes from random disk locations will get the worst performance out of this level.[7]
The requirement that all disks spin synchronously, a.k.a. lockstep, added design considerations to a level that didn't give significant advantages over other RAID levels, so it quickly became useless and is now obsolete.[6] Both RAID 3 and RAID 4 were quickly replaced by RAID 5.[8] RAID 3 was usually implemented in hardware, and the performance issues were addressed by using large disk caches.[7]
RAID 4[edit]
A RAID 4 uses block-level striping with a dedicated parity disk. This allows each member of the set to act independently when only a single block is requested.
In the example on the right, a read request for block A1 would be serviced by disk 0. A simultaneous read request for block B1 would have to wait, but a read request for B2 could be serviced concurrently by disk 1.
RAID 4 is very uncommon, but one enterprise level company to use it is NetApp. The aforementioned performance problems were solved with their proprietary Write Anywhere File Layout (WAFL), an approach to writing data to disk locations that minimizes the conventional parity RAID write penalty. By storing system metadata (inodes, block maps, and inode maps) in the same way application data is stored, WAFL is able to write file system metadata blocks anywhere on the disk. This approach in turn allows multiple writes to be "gathered" and scheduled to the same RAID stripe—eliminating the traditional read-modify-write penalty prevalent in parity-based RAID schemes.[9]
RAID 5[edit]
A RAID 5 uses block-level striping with parity data distributed across all member disks. RAID 5 has achieved popularity because of its low cost of redundancy. This can be seen by comparing the number of drives needed to achieve a given capacity. For an array of drives, with being the size of the smallest disk in the array, other RAID levels that yield redundancy give only a storage capacity of (for RAID 1), or (for RAID 1+0). In RAID 5, the yield is . For example, four 1 TB drives can be made into two separate 1 TB redundant arrays under RAID 1 or 2 TB under RAID 1+0, but the same four drives can be used to build a 3 TB array under RAID 5. Although RAID 5 may be implemented in a disk controller, some have hardware support for parity calculations (hardware RAID cards with onboard processors) while some use the main system processor (a form of software RAID in vendor drivers for inexpensive controllers). Many operating systems also provide software RAID support independently of the disk controller, such as Windows Dynamic Disks, Linux mdadm, or RAID-Z. In most implementations, a minimum of three disks is required for a complete RAID 5 configuration. In some implementations a degraded RAID 5 disk set can be made (three disk set of which only two are online), while mdadm supports a fully functional (non-degraded) RAID 5 setup with two disks - which functions as a slow RAID-1, but can be expanded with further volumes.
In the example, a read request for block A1 would be serviced by disk 0. A simultaneous read request for block B1 would have to wait, but a read request for B2 could be serviced concurrently by disk 1.
Parity handling[edit]
A concurrent series of blocks - one on each of the disks in an array - is collectively called a stripe. If another block, or some portion thereof, is written on that same stripe, the parity block, or some portion thereof, is recalculated and rewritten. For small writes, this requires:
- Read the old data block
- Read the old parity block
- Compare the old data block with the write request. For each bit that has flipped (changed from 0 to 1, or from 1 to 0) in the data block, flip the corresponding bit in the parity block
- Write the new data block
- Write the new parity block
The disk used for the parity block is staggered from one stripe to the next, hence the term distributed parity blocks. RAID 5 writes are expensive in terms of disk operations and traffic between the disks and the controller.
The parity blocks are not read on data reads, since this would add unnecessary overhead and would diminish performance. The parity blocks are read, however, when a read of blocks in the stripe fails due to failure of any one of the disks, and the parity block in the stripe are used to reconstruct the errant sector. The CRC error is thus hidden from the main computer. Likewise, should a disk fail in the array, the parity blocks from the surviving disks are combined mathematically with the data blocks from the surviving disks to reconstruct the data from the failed drive on-the-fly.
This is sometimes called Interim Data Recovery Mode. The computer knows that a disk drive has failed, but this is only so that the operating system can notify the administrator that a drive needs replacement; applications running on the computer are unaware of the failure. Reading and writing to the drive array continues seamlessly, though with some performance degradation.
When a disk record is randomly accessed there is a delay as the disk rotates sufficiently for the data to come under the head for processing. This delay is called latency. On average, a single disk will need to rotate 1/2 revolution. Thus, for a 7200 RPM disk the average latency is 4.2 milliseconds. In RAID 5 arrays all the disks must be accessed so the latency can become a significant factor. In a RAID 5 array, with n randomly oriented disks, the mean latency is revolutions and the median latency is . In order to mitigate this problem, well-designed RAID systems will synchronize the angular orientation of their disks. In this case the random nature of the angular displacements goes away, the average latency returns to 1/2 revolution, and a saving of up to 50% in latency is achieved. Since solid state drives do not have disks, their latency does not follow this model.
Number of Disks | Mean Latency (Rev) | Median Latency (Rev) |
1 | 0.50 | 0.50 |
2 | 0.67 (+33%) | 0.71 (+41%) |
3 | 0.75 (+50%) | 0.79 (+59%) |
4 | 0.80 (+60%) | 0.84 (+68%) |
5 | 0.83 (+67%) | 0.87 (+74%) |
6 | 0.86 (+71%) | 0.89 (+78%) |
7 | 0.88 (+75%) | 0.91 (+81%) |
8 | 0.89 (+78%) | 0.92 (+83%) |
Usable capacity[edit]
Parity uses up the capacity of one drive in the array. (This can be seen by comparing it with RAID 4: RAID 5 distributes the parity data across the disks, while RAID 4 centralizes it on one disk, but the amount of parity data is the same.) If the drives vary in capacity, the smallest one sets the limit. Therefore, the usable capacity of a RAID 5 array is , where is the total number of drives in the array and is the capacity of the smallest drive in the array.
The number of hard disks that can belong to a single array is limited only by the capacity of the storage controller in hardware implementations, or by the OS in software RAID. One caveat is that unlike RAID 1, as the number of disks in an array increases, the probability of data loss due to multiple drive failures also increases. This is because there is a reduced ratio of "losable" drives (the number of drives that can fail before data is lost) to total drives.
RAID 6[edit]
RAID 6 extends RAID 5 by adding an additional parity block; thus it uses block-level striping with two parity blocks distributed across all member disks.
Performance (speed)[edit]
RAID 6 does not have a performance penalty for read operations, but it does have a performance penalty on write operations because of the overhead associated with parity calculations. Performance varies greatly depending on how RAID 6 is implemented in the manufacturer's storage architecture – in software, firmware or by using firmware and specialized ASICs for intensive parity calculations. It can be as fast as a RAID-5 system with one fewer drive (same number of data drives).[10]
Efficiency (potential waste of storage)[edit]
RAID 6 is no less space efficient than RAID 5 with a hot spare drive when used with a small number of drives, but as arrays become bigger and have more drives, the loss in storage capacity becomes less important, although the probability of data loss is greater with larger arrays. RAID 6 provides protection against data loss during an array rebuild, when a second drive is lost, a bad block read is encountered, or when a human operator accidentally removes and replaces the wrong disk drive when attempting to replace a failed drive.
The usable capacity of a RAID 6 array is , where is the total number of drives in the array and is the capacity of the smallest drive in the array.
According to the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the definition of RAID 6 is: "Any form of RAID that can continue to execute read and write requests to all of a RAID array's virtual disks in the presence of any two concurrent disk failures. Several methods, including dual check data computations (parity and Reed-Solomon), orthogonal dual parity check data and diagonal parity, have been used to implement RAID Level 6."[11]
Computing parity[edit]
Two different syndromes need to be computed in order to allow the loss of any two drives. One of them, P can be the simple XOR of the data across the stripes, as with RAID 5. A second, independent syndrome is more complicated and requires the assistance of field theory.
To deal with this, the Galois field is introduced with , where for a suitable irreducible polynomial of degree . A chunk of data can be written as in base 2 where each is either 0 or 1. This is chosen to correspond with the element in the Galois field. Let correspond to the stripes of data across hard drives encoded as field elements in this manner (in practice they would probably be broken into byte-sized chunks). If is some generator of the field and denotes addition in the field while concatenation denotes multiplication, then and may be computed as follows ( denotes the number of data disks):
For a computer scientist, a good way to think about this is that is a bitwise XOR operator and is the action of a linear feedback shift register on a chunk of data. Thus, in the formula above,[12] the calculation of P is just the XOR of each stripe. This is because addition in any characteristic two finite field reduces to the XOR operation. The computation of Q is the XOR of a shifted version of each stripe.
Mathematically, the generator is an element of the field such that is different for each nonnegative satisfying .
If one data drive is lost, the data can be recomputed from P just like with RAID 5. If two data drives are lost or a data drive and the drive containing P are lost, the data can be recovered from P and Q or from just Q, respectively, using a more complex process. Working out the details is extremely hard with field theory. Suppose that and are the lost values with . Using the other values of , constants and may be found so that and :
Multiplying both sides of the equation for by and adding to the former equation yields and thus a solution for , which may be used to compute .
The computation of Q is CPU intensive compared to the simplicity of P. Thus, a RAID 6 implemented in software will have a more significant effect on system performance, and a hardware solution will be more complex.
Non-standard RAID levels and non-RAID drive architectures[edit]
There are other RAID levels that are promoted by individual vendors, but not generally standardized. The non-standard RAID levels 5E, 5EE and 6E extend RAID 5 and 6 with hot-spare drives.
Other non-standard RAID levels include:
- RAID 7 (a hardware-supported, proprietary RAID developed by Storage Computer Corp. of Nashua, NH)
- RAID S or parity RAID
- Matrix RAID
- RAIDn
- Linux MD RAID 10
- IBM ServeRAID 1E
- unRAID
- ineo Complex RAID
- Drobo BeyondRAID
- Synology Hybrid RAID
- Microsoft Storage Spaces
There are also non-RAID drive architectures, which are referred to by similar acronyms, notably SLED, Just a Bunch of Disks, SPAN/BIG, and MAID.
See also[edit]
- ^ "Common raid Disk Data Format (DDF)". SNIA.org. Storage Networking Industry Association. Retrieved 2013-04-23.
- ^ "Western Digital's Raptors in RAID-0: Are two drives better than one?". AnandTech. July 1, 2004. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- ^ "Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000: Two Terabyte RAID Redux". AnandTech. April 23, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- ^ "RAID 0: Hype or blessing?". Tweakers.net. August 7, 2004. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
- ^ "Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server: How to Use Apple-Supplied RAID Software". Apple.com. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- ^ a b c Derek Vadala (2003). Managing RAID on Linux. O'Reilly Series (illustrated ed.). O'Reilly. p. 6. ISBN 9781565927308.
- ^ a b c d Evan Marcus, Hal Stern (2003). Blueprints for high availability (2, illustrated ed.). John Wiley and Sons. p. 167. ISBN 9780471430261.
- ^ Michael Meyers, Scott Jernigan (2003). Mike Meyers' A+ Guide to Managing and Troubleshooting PCs (illustrated ed.). McGraw-Hill Professional. p. 321. ISBN 9780072231465.
- ^ http://partners.netapp.com/go/techontap/matl/NetApp_DNA.html (password-protected)
- ^ Rickard E. Faith (13 May 2009). A Comparison of Software RAID Types.
- ^ "Dictionary R". Storage Networking Industry Association. Retrieved 2007-11-24.
- ^ Anvin, H. Peter (21 May 2009). "The mathematics of RAID-6". Retrieved November 4, 2009.


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