RAID LEVELS

This is the most common RAID. Data is transferred to each drive. This is done by independent write and read operations. You need 3 drives for this to work.

Advantages

This type of RAID can survive a disk failure. Give excellent through put and redundancy. This a a good RAID good for both speed and redundancy.

Disadvantages

This is a complex RAID system.
 

RAID 5


disk 1                                         disk 2                                    disk 3

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