Kontron KISS Stor 1 User Manual
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Introduction to RAID Level
KISS-Stor 1 – User’s Manual
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RAID 1: Mirrored disk array
Characteristics:
Recommended use:
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Better Read transaction rate then single disks,
same Write transaction rate as single disks.
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100% redundancy of data means no rebuild of
data is necessary in case of disk failure, just a
copy to the replacement disk.
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All the disks have the same data.
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Raid level 1 requires two drives.
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Storage capacity = Capacity of smaller disk
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Accounting
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Payroll
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Financial
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Any application requiring
high availability
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