What is RAID-5?
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What is RAID-5?
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RAID-5 supports striped-with-parity. It contains a minimum of three disks. In this disk system, data along with its parity bits is stored across multiple disks. When a file is written to a RAID-5 volume, the file splits to all the disks in the set excluding the final disk. The final disk contains the parity information. This parity information allows the disks in the array to keep functioning, in case a disk in the set fails. Due to data redundancy, RAID-5 provides fault tolerance.
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