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RAID 5

March 10, 2011 by Igor Drobot Leave a Comment

A RAID 5 uses block-level striping with parity data distributed across all member disks.

Requirements: At least 3 drives
Fault Tolerance: (N – 1) Can tolerate loss of one drive
Capacity: (Size of Smallest Drive) * (Number of Drives – 1)

Filed Under: Linux Tagged With: RAID, RAID 5