You are working as a technician at Certkiller .com. You are asked to implement RAID 5 on the
new DNS server. What is the minimum number of disk drives needed to implement a RAID 5
configuration?

A.
3.

B.
1.

C.
5.

D.
2.

Explanation:
RAID 0striped set (minimum 2 disks) without parity.
RAID 1mirrored set (minimum 2 disks) without parity.
RAID 3and RAID 4 striped set (minimum 3 disks) with dedicated parity.
RAID 5striped set (minimum 3 disks) with distributed parity.

RAID 6striped set (minimum 4 disks) with dual distributed parity.