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SK0-003 · Question #79

Which of the following RAID arrays should be used to achieve the MOST performance?

The correct answer is A. Four drives with RAID 0. RAID 0 offers the highest performance among the listed options because it stripes data across multiple drives without any overhead for parity or mirroring.

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Question

Which of the following RAID arrays should be used to achieve the MOST performance?

Options

  • AFour drives with RAID 0
  • BThree drives with RAID 5
  • CFour drives with RAID 10
  • DTwo drives with RAID 50

How the community answered

(27 responses)
  • A
    96% (26)
  • C
    4% (1)

Why each option

RAID 0 offers the highest performance among the listed options because it stripes data across multiple drives without any overhead for parity or mirroring.

AFour drives with RAID 0Correct

RAID 0, also known as striping, offers the highest performance by distributing data across multiple drives without any overhead for parity or mirroring, maximizing both read and write speeds. With four drives, data is split into smaller blocks and written concurrently across all drives, significantly increasing throughput.

BThree drives with RAID 5

RAID 5 uses striping with distributed parity, which provides data redundancy but incurs a performance penalty, especially during write operations, compared to RAID 0.

CFour drives with RAID 10

RAID 10 (RAID 1+0) combines mirroring and striping, offering good performance and fault tolerance, but its performance is generally lower than RAID 0 because half the drive capacity is used for mirroring.

DTwo drives with RAID 50

RAID 50 (RAID 5+0) combines striping across RAID 5 arrays, providing better performance and fault tolerance than RAID 5 alone, but its write performance is still constrained by the parity calculations within the RAID 5 segments and is not as fast as pure striping with RAID 0.

Concept tested: RAID levels and performance

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/storage/disk-management/raid-levels

Topics

#RAID levels#RAID 0#disk performance#storage optimization

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