RAID 1 is composed of an exact copy (or mirror) of a set of data on two or more disks; a classic RAID 1 mirrored pair has two disks. When using a RAID 1 volume, information is written to a first drive and to a second (or "mirror") drive simultaneously. It is not necessary to remove any information from the remaining hard drive if one of the drives in the mirror volume fails.
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