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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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Question

Which of the following storage media would be used to build a RAID 5 array?

Options

  • ADual layer DVDs
  • BSATA HDDs
  • CFlash drives
  • DBlu-ray discs

How the community answered

(22 responses)
  • A
    9% (2)
  • B
    86% (19)
  • D
    5% (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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#RAID 5#SATA#HDD#storage arrays

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