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Can RAID 0 be combined with another type of RAID, like RAID 1?

April 26, 2017combined raid type

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Can RAID 0 be combined with another type of RAID, like RAID 1?

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The combination of striping and then mirroring is referred to as RAID 0+1. In this scenario, the configuration will provide disk striping (RAID 0) across 2 or more drives and will “mirror” the data in real-time to a duplicate drive set (RAID 1). This unique combination will provide fault tolerance, but it does so at the expense of usable storage space. A volume established as a RAID 0+1 volume will need four (4) hard drives at a minimum to be configured.