RAID Configuration: Mirrored Striping Explained

What RAID configuration combines RAID 1 and RAID 0, also known as mirrored striping?

RAID 10 is known as mirrored striping because it combines the techniques of RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring) to provide high performance and data redundancy.

Final answer:

RAID 10

RAID 10 is a popular RAID configuration that combines the features of RAID 1 and RAID 0 to offer both performance and redundancy benefits. In this configuration, data is both striped (RAID 0) and mirrored (RAID 1) simultaneously.

By combining these two techniques, RAID 10 provides improved performance as data can be read from multiple disks in parallel (striping) while also ensuring data redundancy as the same data is written to multiple disks (mirroring). This means that if one disk fails, the system can still operate without any data loss, as the mirror copy of the data on the failed disk is available on another disk.

RAID 10 is often preferred in environments where both high performance and data protection are critical, such as database servers, virtualization platforms, and other I/O intensive applications. While RAID 10 requires more disks compared to other RAID configurations, the benefits it offers in terms of performance and redundancy make it a popular choice for many organizations.