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Redundancy for protection of data.
RAID 1 is more expensive in terms of disk space since twice the number of disks are used than required to store the data
without redundancy.
RAID level 5 or striping with distributed parity
RAID 5 provides data redundancy by using data striping in combination with parity information. Rather than dedicating a physical
disk to parity, the parity information is striped across all physical disks in the disk group.
RAID 5 characteristics:
Groups n disks as one large virtual disk with a capacity of (n-1) disks.
Redundant information (parity) is alternately stored on all disks.
When a disk fails, the virtual disk still works, but it is operating in a degraded state. The data is reconstructed from the
surviving disks.
Better read performance, but slower write performance.
Redundancy for protection of data.
RAID level 6-striping with additional distributed parity
RAID 6 provides data redundancy by using data striping in combination with parity information. Similar to RAID 5, the parity is
distributed within each stripe. RAID 6, however, uses an additional physical disk to maintain parity, such that each stripe in the
disk group maintains two disk blocks with parity information. The additional parity provides data protection in the event of two
disk failures. In the following image, the two sets of parity information are identified as P and Q.
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