RAID6 - Block-level Striping + Double Distributed Parity- Expands on RAID5 by spanning two parity sets across the array and requires a minimum of four drives for implementation
- RAID6 arrays can sustain two simultaneous drive failures without loss of data
- Read performance is exceptional like RAID5 however write performance is slightly worse [than RAID5] due to the additional write-stream for the second parity set
- Double parity generation requires extensive system resources
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