RAID Levels - RAID 1

• RAID 1

  • Mirror data across N disks. (N is usually 2)
  • Redundant data will survive failure of N-1 disks.
  • Performance increase for reads vs. single disk.
  • Some performance loss on writes vs. single disk.
  • Expensive - disk space x 2.

A sample RAID 1 Volume

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