Managing Storage On My Cloud Mirror; About Storage; Raid Storage - Western Digital My Cloud Mirror User Manual

Managing Storage on My Cloud Mirror

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About Storage

RAID Storage

Disk Status
About Storage
The Storage page allows you to configure the storage within your device and view the status
and capacity of its disks. This chapter provides details on managing the storage on your My
Cloud Mirror device.
RAID Storage
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) allows you to store the same data in different
places on multiple hard drives, providing necessary redundancy, greater performance, and
data integrity. There are several different levels of RAID, each one providing a different
method of sharing or distributing data among the drives. Your My Cloud Mirror device allows
you to select from the following storage modes:
Note: The difference between a drive and a volume is that a volume can be a
RAID Mode
JBOD
Spanning
RAID 0
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single drive or multiple drives.
Description
The use of one or more drives not in a RAID configuration but managed
as separate logical volumes.
Combination of drives in a linear fashion to create one large logical
volume.
RAID 0 mode provides disk striping across all drives in the RAID drive
group.
RAID 0 does not provide data redundancy but does provide the best
performance of any RAID level. RAID 0 breaks up data into smaller
segments and stripes the data segments across each drive in the drive
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