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        OWC RAID Central

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        RAID 1 "Mirror" – Safe/Redundant Storage


        Perfect For

        Photographers and musicians, but also for anyone needing a safe, protected place to store their important data.
        • Store music, photos, videos
        • Anything that takes time to create
        • Anything that is difficult to replace

        Protection

        • As the data moves onto the array, it is simultaneously copied to both drives at the same time giving you two copies.
        • In the event one of the drives fails, the other still holds the data intact and allows you to keep working.
          • Once the failed drive is replaced, the array will rebuild to give protection once again.
        • The usable capacity of the RAID 1 array is equal to the capacity of one drive.

        Learn More About the Types of RAID

        • RAID 0 (Stripe)
        • RAID 1 (Mirror)
        • RAID 10 (1+0)
        • RAID 5 (Stripe with Parity)
        • JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives)
        • Span (N-RAID)
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        RAID 0 (Stripe)
        Data is split into blocks over two or more drives at same time for high speed and large capacity.
        Capacity
        blue meter 4
        Data Safety
        orange meter 1
        Performance
        green meter 4
        Learn About RAID 0
        RAID 1 (Mirror)
        Data is written at same time to two drives only for highest level of data safety and redundancy.
        Capacity
        blue meter 1
        Data Safety
        orange meter 4
        Performance
        green meter 14
        Learn About RAID 1
        RAID 10 (1+0)
        Data is Striped (RAID 0) over two Mirrored sets (RAID 1) of drives for fast redundancy.
        Capacity
        blue meter 2
        Data Safety
        orange meter 4
        Performance
        green meter 2
        Learn About RAID 10
        RAID 5 (Stripe with Parity)
        Data is Striped (RAID 0) while incorporating parity over three or more drives for the best combination of speed, capacity, and redundancy.
        Capacity
        blue meter 3
        Data Safety
        orange meter 3
        Performance
        green meter 3
        Learn About RAID 5
        JBOD
        (Just a Bunch Of Disks/Drives)
        Each disk shows up as an individual logical volume on the computer. A 4 bay unit populated with drives will have 4 logical drives show up on the computer.
        Capacity
        blue meter 4
        Data Safety
        orange meter 1.5
        Performance
        green meter 1
        Learn About JBOD
        Span (N-RAID)
        Combines capacity of two or more drives of varying size without any RAID data distribution scheme into one logical desktop volume.
        Capacity
        blue meter 4
        Data Safety
        orange meter 1.5
        Performance
        green meter 1
        Learn About Span/N-RAID
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