Raid 1 arrays – Adaptec 48300 User Manual

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Understanding RAID

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RAID 1 Arrays

A RAID 1 array is built from two disk drives, where one disk drive is a
mirror of the other (the same data is stored on each disk drive).
Compared to independent disk drives, RAID 1 arrays provide improved
performance, with twice the read rate and an equal write rate of single
disks. However, capacity is only 50 percent of independent disk drives.

If the RAID 1 array is built from different- sized disk drives, the free
space, drive segment size is the size of the smaller disk drive, as shown
below.

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