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SK0-003 · Question #80

Which of the following RAID arrays should be used to achieve the BEST fault tolerance?

The correct answer is D. Four drives with RAID 10. RAID 10 provides the best fault tolerance among the options by combining mirroring and striping, allowing for multiple drive failures under specific conditions.

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Question

Which of the following RAID arrays should be used to achieve the BEST fault tolerance?

Options

  • AFour drives with RAID 0
  • BFour drives with RAID 3
  • CFour drives with RAID 5
  • DFour drives with RAID 10

How the community answered

(38 responses)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    92% (35)

Why each option

RAID 10 provides the best fault tolerance among the options by combining mirroring and striping, allowing for multiple drive failures under specific conditions.

AFour drives with RAID 0

RAID 0 provides no fault tolerance as it uses striping without any redundancy; the failure of a single drive results in complete data loss.

BFour drives with RAID 3

RAID 3 uses striping with a dedicated parity drive, which provides fault tolerance for a single drive failure but is less fault tolerant than RAID 10 for multiple drive failures and can have performance bottlenecks.

CFour drives with RAID 5

RAID 5 uses striping with distributed parity, allowing for a single drive failure, but cannot tolerate the failure of two drives simultaneously, making it less fault tolerant than RAID 10.

DFour drives with RAID 10Correct

RAID 10 (RAID 1+0) combines mirroring (RAID 1) and striping (RAID 0), offering excellent fault tolerance by allowing for the loss of one drive in each mirrored pair without data loss, and potentially more if the failures are in different mirrored sets. With four drives, it would typically be two mirrored pairs, striped together.

Concept tested: RAID levels and fault tolerance

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

Topics

#RAID levels#RAID 10#fault tolerance#data redundancy

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