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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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enable you to continue working throughout the process. This is possible if

you stop relying on a single hard drive and instead use two or more drives to

store your data. Sounds good, but how do you do this? Well, you could install

some fancy hard drive controller that reads and writes data to two hard drives

simultaneously (see Figure 8-17). The data on each drive would always be

identical. One drive would be the primary drive and the other drive, called the

mirror drive, would not be used unless the primary drive failed. This process

of reading and writing data at the same time to two drives is called disk

mirroring.

Figure 8-17 Mirrored drives

If you really want to make data safe, you can use a separate controller for

each drive. With two drives, each on a separate controller, the system will

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