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050-696 · Question #129

Which of the following volume implementation strategies protects data by writing the same information redundantly to two or more hard disks at the same time?

The correct answer is D. Mirroring. Disk mirroring is the storage strategy that provides redundancy by writing identical data simultaneously to two or more physical disks.

File System and Storage Management

Question

Which of the following volume implementation strategies protects data by writing the same information redundantly to two or more hard disks at the same time?

Options

  • AParity
  • BStriping
  • CSpanning
  • DMirroring

How the community answered

(23 responses)
  • A
    17% (4)
  • B
    9% (2)
  • C
    4% (1)
  • D
    70% (16)

Why each option

Disk mirroring is the storage strategy that provides redundancy by writing identical data simultaneously to two or more physical disks.

AParity

Parity uses a mathematical calculation distributed across disks (as in RAID 5 or RAID 6) to allow reconstruction of lost data, but it does not write the same raw data redundantly to every disk.

BStriping

Striping (RAID 0) distributes data across multiple disks in segments to improve read/write performance, but it provides zero redundancy and actually increases the risk of total data loss.

CSpanning

Spanning (JBOD - Just a Bunch of Disks) concatenates multiple disks into a single logical volume to expand capacity, but writes data sequentially across disks without any duplication or redundancy.

DMirroringCorrect

Mirroring (RAID 1) duplicates every write operation across two or more disks in real time so that each disk holds a complete, identical copy of the data. If one disk fails, the mirror disk contains all data intact, providing full fault tolerance with no data loss.

Concept tested: RAID mirroring for disk-level data redundancy

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/storage-spaces-fault-tolerance

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