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parity disk

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Storage

Disk on which parity information is stored for a RAID group.

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Related Storage terms

disk scrubbing
Parity
parity checking
RAID
RAID 0 (striped disks without parity)
RAID 1 (mirrored disks without parity)
RAID 10 (mirrored disks in a striped set)
RAID 5 (striped disks with distributed parity)
RAID 50 (stripe across distributed parity RAID)
RAID 6 (striped disks with dual distributed parity)
RAID disk scrubbing
RAID group
redundant array of independent disks (RAID)
Striping (RAID 0)

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