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3.8 What is Hot Sparing ?
A hot sparing refers to a process that temporarily replaces a failed disk drive with a spare drive in a RAID array by taking...
3.7 Overview of RAID 6 and its use cases
RAID 6 works in the same way as RAID 5, except that RAID 6 includes a second parity element to enable survival if two...
3.6 Overview of RAID 5 and its use cases
RAID 5 is a versatile RAID implementation. It is similar to RAID 4 because it uses striping. The drives (strips) are also independently accessible....
3.5 Overview of RAID 10 and its use cases
RAID 1+0 is also known as RAID 10 (Ten) or RAID 1/0. RAID 1+0 is also called striped mirror. It is a hybrid of RAID...
3.4 Overview of RAID 1 and its use cases
RAID 1 uses the mirroring technique. In this RAID configuration, data is mirrored to provide fault tolerance. A RAID 1 set consists of two...
3.3 Overview of RAID 0 and its use cases
RAID 0 does not offer data redundancy as it does not use parity or mirroring techniques. RAID 0 uses striping technique to store the...