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Name: Andy006
Date: November 5, 2006 at 13:42:21 Pacific
Subject: What is RAID 1?
OS: Windows XP
CPU/Ram: P4 3 GHz/1GB
Model/Manufacturer: Dell Dimension 5000
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I know that RAID 1 is disk mirroring. Does this mean that there are two copies of the same data (one on each hard disk) so that if one of the disks fails, the data is still on the other one? Also do you need a special type of hard disk to set up RAID?


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Name: jam
Date: November 5, 2006 at 13:46:19 Pacific
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