Raid 1+0—drive mirroring – HP 5300 User Manual

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Drive Arrays and Fault Tolerance

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HP Smart Array 5300 Controller User Guide

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RAID 1+0—Drive Mirroring

In this configuration, data is duplicated onto a second drive.

P1

P2

B1

B2

B3

B4

B1

B2

B3

B4

Figure D-5: Drive mirroring of P1 onto P2

When the array has more than two physical drives, drives are mirrored in pairs.

S1

S2

S1

S2

P1

P5

B5

B1

B1

B5

P2

P6

B6

B2

B2

B6

P3

P7

B7

B3

B3

B7

P4

P8

B8

B4

B4

B8

Figure D-6: Mirroring with more than two physical
drives in the array

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