A developer wants to ensure their critical data is protected from hard drive failure. Their workstation has two hard drives. Which RAID level should they use?
Correct Answer: B
RAID 1 is known as mirroring. It duplicates all data to both drives simultaneously, providing redundancy in the event of a single drive failure. CompTIA A+ teaches that RAID 1 is ideal when reliability is the priority and only two drives are available exactly matching this scenario.
RAID 0 offers no redundancy. RAID 5 requires three or more drives. RAID 10 requires four or more drives.
Since the workstation has only two drives, RAID 1 is the only RAID configuration providing data protection and is heavily featured in CompTIA's coverage of RAID technologies, their requirements, and their purposes in fault tolerance.