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You have two drives in your computer and you want to configure it into most redundant configuration as possible. What RAID types should you configure?

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Question added by Roderick Cabase , IT Technician , Saudi Aramco (Contract Isam Kabbani & Partners Co.)
Date Posted: 2014/06/20
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Peter Paquing
by Peter Paquing , ELECTRICAL ENGINEER CONSULTANT , ABDALLAH ALSAIF & PARTNERS FOR ENGINEERING

RAID1

ABDUL RASHAD K K
by ABDUL RASHAD K K , IT Service Desk Support Engineer , Qatar Petrochemical Company Q.S.C (QAPCO)

I recommend you to configure RAID1

Because as per my experience with2 HDD you can either choose RAID-0 or RAID-1.

RAID-0 doesn’t support redundancy and commonly it is used for obtaining excellent performance in data transferring by block stripping method.  

RAID-1 supports redundancy and you cannot expect an excellent preference as RAID-0 but you can assure that if one HDD failed the data is safe in another HDD. The main disadvantages of RAID-1, you can use only half of the total space and even if it supports redundancy most probably you required down time for the machine because in software RAID, RAID-1 don’t always allow a hot swap for a filed HDD.    

In your requirement keeps importance to redundancy so I recommend choosing RAID-1

Aravind Umasankar
by Aravind Umasankar , FULL STACK DEVELOPER , TECH R LABS

I choose raid6 bcause it has errorchecking and restoring HDD..Performance for Desktop HDD is more inaf

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