Device parity protection concepts

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RAID 5 concepts
RAID 5 protection protects data from being lost because of a disk unit failure or because of damage to a disk. RAID 5 protection protects against a one disk unit failure.
RAID 6 concepts
RAID 6 protection protects data from being lost because of a disk unit failure or because of damage to a disk. RAID 6 protection protects up to two disk unit failures.
RAID 10 concepts
RAID 10 protection protects data from being lost because of a disk unit failure or because of damage to a disk. RAID 10 protection provides a level of protection comparable to device level mirroring.

Parent topic: Device parity protection