What is mirrored volume?
This article shows what mirrored volume is and how to create it with Disk Management or MiniTool Partition Wizard.
A mirrored volume is a fault-tolerant dynamic volume.
It provides data redundancy by using two copies of volume or copying data stored on the volume.
All data written into mirrored volume will be written in two mirrors which lie in the separate physical disk.
Then, you’ve got the option to create new mirrored volume in other disks.
System performance may be degraded because of dual writing operations.
The duplex mode is used for many mirrored volume configurations.
In this mode, each disk in mirrored volume has its own independentdisk controller.
If duplex controller isnt used, the failed controller will make both mirrors in mirrored volume inaccessible.
They can be accessed until the failed controller is replaced.
Almost any volume can be mirrored, including system and boot volumes.
Later, you cant enlarge the size of mirrored volume by extending it.
This can make system configuration has better fault tolerance.
This way allows system to work properly after hard disk or disk controller fails.
Users should always use the same disk and controller to make it avoid appearing boot problem.
At present, mirrored volume is widely used in simple serving systems which dont use hardware RAID.
Next, choose Add Mirror Volume command in the pop-up menu.
Step 2: it’s possible for you to open Add Mirror Volume dialog box.
You may choose the dynamic disk you will use and then click Add Mirror Volume button.
Step 3: you may return to Disk Management interface.
The system will start to synchronize content of the original simple volume and its copy.
The time needed in this process mainly depends on data size of the simple volume and system performance.
To be specific, users can see the percentage when synchronization is being carried out.
After synchronization is completed, the mirrored volume will show Healthy information.
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