Which of the following BEST describes RAID 5?

While RAID 5 involves data striping, this description is incomplete as it omits the critical element of distributed parity, which is essential for RAID 5's fault tolerance.

This description refers to RAID 4, where parity is stored on a single, dedicated drive, which can become a performance bottleneck.

This description refers to RAID 6, which uses two independent sets of distributed parity information to tolerate two simultaneous drive failures.

RAID 5 implements data striping at the block level across all drives in the array for improved performance, and crucially includes parity information that is also striped and distributed across all drives. This distributed parity allows the reconstruction of data from a single failed drive, providing fault tolerance without the bottleneck of a dedicated parity drive.