A technician is installing a server with sixteen 1 TB drives. They want the benefit of both speed and redundancy. Which of the following RAID configurations should be used?

RAID 0 provides striping for speed but offers no redundancy, meaning a single drive failure results in data loss.

RAID 1 provides mirroring for redundancy but sacrifices 50% of storage capacity and does not offer significant speed improvement for writes compared to single disks, especially with many drives.

RAID 3 uses byte-level striping with a dedicated parity drive, offering good performance for large sequential reads but can be slow for random access and has a single point of failure for parity. It is less common than other RAID levels for general-purpose servers.

RAID 50, also known as RAID 5+0, stripes data across multiple RAID 5 arrays. This configuration provides the speed benefits of striping (RAID 0) and the redundancy and fault tolerance of parity (RAID 5), making it suitable for a large number of drives where both performance and protection are critical.