RAID 1 Mirroring Disk Volume
RAID 1 duplicates the data
between two hard drives to
provide disk mirroring. To create
a RAID 1 array, a minimum of 2
hard drives are required.
The storage capacity of a RAID 1
disk volume is equal to the size
of the smallest hard drive.
RAID 5 Disk Volume
The data are striped across all
the hard drives in a RAID 5 array.
The parity information is
distributed and stored across
each hard drive. If a member
hard drive fails, the array enters
degraded mode. After installing a
new hard drive to replace the
failed one, the data can be
rebuilt from other member
drives that contain the parity
information.
To create a RAID 5 disk volume, a
minimum of 3 hard drives are
required.
The storage capacity of a RAID 5
array is equal to (N-1) * (size of
smallest hard drive). N is the
number of hard drives in the
array.
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