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RAID Level 5: Rotating Parity

Explore how RAID 5 improves upon RAID 4 by rotating parity blocks across disks to eliminate bottlenecks. Understand its effects on capacity, failure tolerance, and performance for random reads and writes, and why it has largely replaced RAID 4 in storage systems.

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To address the small-write problem (at least, partially), Patterson, Gibson, and Katz introduced RAID-5. RAID-5 works almost identically ...