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Chapter 1: Features of the CHALLENGE RAID Storage System
RAID-1_0 Group: Mirrored RAID-0 Group
A RAID-1_0 configuration mirrors a RAID-0 group, creating a primary
RAID-0 image and a secondary RAID-0 image for user data. This
arrangement consists of four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, or sixteen disk
modules. These disk modules make up two mirror images, with each image
including two to eight disk modules. A RAID-1_0 group uses striping and
combines the speed advantage of RAID-0 with the redundancy advantage of
mirroring.
Figure 1-11 illustrates the distribution of user data with the default stripe
element size of 128 sectors (65,536 bytes) in a six-module RAID-1_0 group.
Notice that the disk block addresses in the stripe proceed sequentially from
the first mirrored disk modules to the second mirrored modules, to the third
mirrored image disk modules, then from the first mirrored disk modules,
and so on.
A RAID-1_0 group can survive the failure of multiple disk modules,
providing that one disk module in each image pair survives. Thus, for
highest availability and performance, the disk modules in an image pair
must be on a different SCSI bus from the disk modules in the other image
pair. For example, the RAID-1_0 group shown in Figure 1-11 has three disk
modules in each image of the pair.