Which of these RAID types not only provides a high level of availability, but also allows efficient access to data when a failure occurs?
A) RAID 0
B) RAID 1
C) RAID 5
D) RAID 55
E) ULDUAR
The answer: B) RAID 1
RAID 1, or mirroring, provides complete duplication across physical drives. Although this requires twice as much space to store data, the retrieval of the data during a failure doesn’t require any additional parity calculations.
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