RAID Level 1

 

Disk Mirroring

RAID level 1 provides redundancy by writing all data to two or more drives. The performance of a level 1 array tends to be faster on reads and slower on writes compared to a single drive, but if either drive fails, no data is lost. This is a good entry-level redundant system, since only two drives are required; however, since one drive is used to store a duplicate of the data, the cost per megabyte is high. This level is commonly referred to as mirroring.

Advantages

No parity generation
Easy to implement
Extremely fault tolerant
Utilises full disk capacity
2 drives minimum

Disadvantages

In efficient use of disk space
High disk overhead
Doubles number of writes

RAID level 1

Application

Pre-Press, Video editing and production, Image manipulation/editing