https://rickardnobel.se/how-raid5-works/ Specialists in IT infrastructure services Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:20:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 https://rickardnobel.se/how-raid5-works/#comment-477978 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 08:20:06 +0000 https://rickardnobel.se/?p=683#comment-477978 […] A second approach is to split your data into two parts, using the two blocks of user data you can create a third ‘parity’ block. The three blocks are all of the same size and are spread across different devices. A minimum of three devices are necessary for this configuration to work. If any of the disk fails, you can recreate the blocks stored in that disk using the other two blocks. For example, if the second user block is lost, the first block and the parity block can be used to compute the second user block. If you are interested in how this works check out this wonderful explanation. […]

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