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SK0-004 · Question #259

Which of the following RAID levels provides the HIGHEST fault tolerance possible?

The correct answer is D. RAID 10. RAID 10 combines mirroring and striping to provide the highest fault tolerance among common RAID levels, surviving multiple simultaneous drive failures.

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Question

Which of the following RAID levels provides the HIGHEST fault tolerance possible?

Options

  • ARAID 0
  • BRAID 5
  • CRAID 6
  • DRAID 10

How the community answered

(68 responses)
  • A
    4% (3)
  • B
    1% (1)
  • C
    6% (4)
  • D
    88% (60)

Why each option

RAID 10 combines mirroring and striping to provide the highest fault tolerance among common RAID levels, surviving multiple simultaneous drive failures.

ARAID 0

RAID 0 uses only striping with zero redundancy, so a single drive failure results in complete data loss.

BRAID 5

RAID 5 uses single distributed parity and can tolerate only one drive failure before data loss occurs.

CRAID 6

RAID 6 uses double parity and tolerates up to two simultaneous failures, which is better than RAID 5 but still less than the scalable multi-failure tolerance of RAID 10.

DRAID 10Correct

RAID 10 mirrors data across drive pairs and stripes across those pairs, so it can survive the failure of one drive in every mirrored pair simultaneously. Unlike RAID 6, which is hard-limited to tolerating exactly two failed drives, RAID 10 scales its fault tolerance with the number of disk pairs, making it the most resilient option listed.

Concept tested: RAID levels fault tolerance comparison

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/storage-spaces-fault-tolerance

Topics

#RAID 10#fault tolerance#RAID comparison#high availability

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