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   ocr: Figure RAID Basics FILE SERVER Siege Host Adopter A mirrored system writes duplicate copies of each dato block on two different drives. It only Uses one host odapter. BLOCK1 BLOCKI BLOCK2 BLOCK2 BLOCK3 BLOCK3 DATA DRIVE 1 DATA DRIVE 2 Mirrored storage system DATA FILE Block Block 2 1 Dota striping breaks files Block 3 DATA STRIPING into small blocks ond Block 4 distributes them aCrOSS Block: 5 Block 6 the drives in an Block 7 array t0 improve BLOCKI BLOCK2 BLOCK3 performance. BLOCKA BLOCKS BLOCK6 BLOCKI Drive 1 Drive 2 Drive 3