RAID 1 characteristics:
• Groups n + n disks as one virtual disk with the capacity of n disks. The controllers currently supported
by Storage Management allow the selection of two disks when creating a RAID 1. Because these disks
are mirrored, the total storage capacity is equal to one disk.
• Data is replicated on both the disks.
• When a disk fails, the virtual disk still works. The data is read from the mirror of the failed disk.
• Better read performance, but slightly slower write performance.
• Redundancy for protection of data.
• RAID 1 is more expensive in terms of disk space since twice the number of disks are used than
required to store the data without redundancy.
RAID Level 5 (Striping With Distributed Parity)
RAID 5 provides data redundancy by using data striping in combination with parity information. Rather
than dedicating a physical disk to parity, the parity information is striped across all physical disks in the
disk group.
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