Whats written to one drive is written exactly the same to the other, whereas RAID 5 you would have possibly only 1 or 2 drives (depending on the array size) that could get errors. RAID 1 is limited in size by the smallest hard drive and can never be upgraded in size whereas with RAID 5 you can...
Well, the thing is, the RAID1 arrays themselves only consist of two drives for each array. So two can go bad here too.
ALso, with RAID1, there is no error checking right? (unless HP has something in there that isn't standard) RAID5 though would have error checking.
Ok, I work in the IT department of a small, but very fast growing company. Before I started, they added new servers for a new software package that was purchased. All of the systems have pretty decent specs. Our SQL database server is the only one that makes me question why.
We will be...
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