What is RAID 6? By the way, do you know what is RAID? RAID is also known as Redundant Arrays of independent drives. It is a technology that supports the integrated use of two or more hard-drives in various configurations for the purposes of achieving greater performance, reliability through redundancy, and larger disk volume sizes through aggregation.

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It is like RAID 5 but with two parity blocks instead of one

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