RAID 5 can be BEST described as which of the following?

Mirroring with striping describes RAID 0+1 or RAID 10, which uses both mirroring and striping techniques, unlike RAID 5 that relies on parity for redundancy.

Striping with dedicated parity is characteristic of RAID 3, where parity data resides on a single, dedicated disk, which can become a bottleneck.

RAID 5 employs block-level striping across a minimum of three disks, and its parity information is distributed evenly among all member disks, rather than being stored on a single dedicated drive. This distributed parity allows the array to recover from the failure of any single disk without data loss, providing both performance benefits and fault tolerance.

While RAID 5 uses independent disks, the term 'shared parity' is less precise than 'distributed parity,' which accurately describes how parity blocks are spread across all disks in the array.