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SK0-004 · Question #477

A server administrator is configuring 10 web servers, each of which can contain up to four hard disks. To get the HIGHEST level of redundancy for these servers, the administrator should:

The correct answer is C. configure using four disks in a RAID 6 array. RAID 6 provides the highest guaranteed redundancy among the options by using dual distributed parity, allowing the array to survive any two simultaneous disk failures.

Server administration

Question

A server administrator is configuring 10 web servers, each of which can contain up to four hard disks. To get the HIGHEST level of redundancy for these servers, the administrator should:

Options

  • Aconfigure using four disks in a RAID 0 array
  • Bconfigure using four disks in a RAID 5 array
  • Cconfigure using four disks in a RAID 6 array
  • Dconfigure using four disks in a RAID 10 array

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • A
    6% (2)
  • B
    19% (6)
  • C
    69% (22)
  • D
    6% (2)

Why each option

RAID 6 provides the highest guaranteed redundancy among the options by using dual distributed parity, allowing the array to survive any two simultaneous disk failures.

Aconfigure using four disks in a RAID 0 array

RAID 0 uses only disk striping with no parity or mirroring, providing zero redundancy - a single disk failure results in complete and unrecoverable data loss across the entire array.

Bconfigure using four disks in a RAID 5 array

RAID 5 uses only a single set of distributed parity and can tolerate the failure of only one disk at a time before data loss occurs.

Cconfigure using four disks in a RAID 6 arrayCorrect

RAID 6 writes two independent sets of parity data across all member disks, meaning any two drives in the array can fail at the same time while the array continues operating and data remains intact and rebuildable. With four disks, RAID 6 guarantees tolerance of any two-disk failure combination, which is a stronger fault tolerance guarantee than RAID 10, where losing both disks in a single mirrored pair causes total array failure.

Dconfigure using four disks in a RAID 10 array

RAID 10 mirrors disk pairs and guarantees survival of only one failure per mirrored pair - if both disks in the same mirror pair fail simultaneously, the entire array is lost, making its redundancy guarantee weaker than RAID 6.

Concept tested: RAID level fault tolerance and redundancy comparison

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

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#RAID 6#disk redundancy#fault tolerance#storage configuration

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