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RAID 0+1 uses a
minimum of four drives. Additional drives must be added in
even numbers.
If
four drives are used, a pair is first striped as in a RAID 0
and then is mirrored as in RAID 1. The
total storage capacity is calculated by summing the storage
capacity of all the drives in the array
and dividing it in half. For this reason, RAID 0+1
can be very expensive. This level does offer increased
performance over some of the other RAID levels due to the
striping that takes place. Because
there is a mirrored copy of the stripe set, a RAID 0+1 array allows the
failure of one or
more drives as
long as the failure of each occurs in the same stripe set.
When this type of drive failure occurs,
the RAID 0+1 essentially becomes a RAID 0 and is vulnerable to drive
failures in
the mirrored copy.
A RAID 0+1 array is
typically used in
servers that demand high performance. It is also used in
high capacity external hard drives. For more
information about devices with
built-in RAID 0+1 technology,
click here.
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The following diagram
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