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Raid 1+0—drive mirroring – HP Integrity rx4640 Server User Manual

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Drive Arrays and Fault Tolerance

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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