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which of the RAID levels uses RAID 0 strictly because of its high performance and RAID 1 for its high fault to

The Certkiller administrator is in the process of configuring a new RAID array and wants to know which of the RAID levels uses RAID 0 strictly because of its high performance and RAID 1 for its high fault tolerance?

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A.
RAID 0+1

B.
RAID 5

C.
RAID 6

D.
RAID 1+0

Explanation:
The RAID 0+1 combination of implementations uses RAID 0 strictly because of its high performance and RAID 1 for its high fault tolerance.
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Answers:
B: RAID 5 is used to distributes its parity blocks among its independent data disks.
C: The RAID 6 implementation uses independent data disk arrays with two distributed parity blocks and it then stripes blocks of data and parity across an array of drives similar to RAID 5 where two sets of parity information for each parcel of data, requiring two drives to do so.
D: The RAID 1+0 combination of implementations applies RAID 1 first, after splitting the eight drives into four sets of two drives each.
Reference:

Charles J. Brooks, Server+ Certification Exam Cram 2 (Exam SK0-002), QUE Publishing, Indianapolis, 2006, pp. 189


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