If you had four identical drives, which of these RAID types would provide both redundancy and the most available storage space for your data?
A) RAID 0
B) RAID 1
C) RAID 2
D) RAID 5
E) RAID 1+0
F) If my files are redundant, does that make them twice as awesome?
The answer: D) RAID 5
RAID 0 does not provide redundancy, and RAID 1 and 1+0 are mirroring data and therefore are effectively limiting available storage space by 50%.
RAID 5 also provides redundancy, but it only uses the space of a single drive for the redundant parity data. With four drives, this means that RAID 5 would provide data storage that was equal to three of the four disks, or 75% of the total disk space.
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