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Parity drive

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drives in the RAID array is written to the parity drive. If one of the data drives fails, the XOR of the remaining drives is identical to the data of the lost drive. Therefore, when a drive is lost, recovering the drive is as simple as copying the XOR of the remaining drives to a fresh data drive.
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uses a parity drive to create a system that is both fault tolerant and, because of
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function which means 'one or the other, but not both'. The XOR of all of the
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One way to implement a parity drive in a RAID array is to use the
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hard drive
RAID
fault tolerance
RAID 3
data striping
exclusive or
Boolean logic
data
Definitions of RAID configurations
"What does the parity bit do in RAID?"
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stub
expanding it
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RAID
Redundant
array
disks
Disk arrays
Data scrubbing
Data striping
Disk array controller
Disk mirroring
Parity drive

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