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Which of the following storage media would be used to build a RAID 5 array?
The correct answer is B. SATA HDDs. RAID 5 requires at least three drives and uses block-level striping with distributed parity to provide fault tolerance and performance. SATA HDDs (and SSDs) are the standard storage media used in RAID configurations. Optical media like DVDs and Blu-ray discs and removable flash…
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Which of the following storage media would be used to build a RAID 5 array?
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- ADual layer DVDs
- BSATA HDDs
- CFlash drives
- DBlu-ray discs
How the community answered
(22 responses)- A9% (2)
- B86% (19)
- D5% (1)
Explanation
RAID 5 requires at least three drives and uses block-level striping with distributed parity to provide fault tolerance and performance. SATA HDDs (and SSDs) are the standard storage media used in RAID configurations. Optical media like DVDs and Blu-ray discs and removable flash drives are not addressable as fixed storage volumes by RAID controllers and cannot be used to build a RAID array.
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