RAID LEVELS

RAID 3

The data written on two or more drives in parallel. Need 3 drives in a RAID 3 array.

Advantages

High read and write throughput.

Disadvantages

Complex RAID. Could drain system.

RAID 3


disk 1                                         disk 2                                  disk 3

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