Raid Types

Question 1

What does RAID stand for?

Answer 1

Redundant Array of Independent Disks

Question 2

What is RAID?

Answer 2

A combination of multiple physical hard disks that is recognized by the operating system.

Question 3

What is RAID 0?

Answer 3

RAID 0 is great for speed but provides no data redundancy.

Question 4

Does RAID 0 lose disk space?

Answer 4

RAID 0 has no loss of space on the disks.

Question 5

What is RAID 1?

Answer 5

RAID 1 provides full redundancy.

Question 6

What is RAID 5?

Answer 6

Striping with parity; one disk can be lost without losing any data.

Question 7

What is RAID 6?

Answer 7

Double striping with parity; two disks can be lost without losing any data.

Question 8

What is RAID 10?

Answer 8

RAID 10 provides redundancy and performance.

Question 9

What is failure resistance in RAID?

Answer 9

Protection against the loss of erased data (RAID 1/RAID 5).

Question 10

What is fault tolerance in RAID?

Answer 10

RAID can function even when a component fails (RAID 1/RAID 5/RAID 6).

Question 11

What is disaster tolerance in RAID?

Answer 11

RAID with two independent zones with full data access (RAID 10).

Question 12

What do RAIDs provide?

Answer 12

Redundancy and high availability.