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Section 5 - Knowledge Base

RAID 5 provides data striping with distributed parity, which stores information that can be used to reconstruct data. A

RAID 5 array will be the size of all the combined disks capacity minus the capacity of one disk, e.g. If there are 4x 80GB disks in

the array, the arrays capacity will be 240GB (3x80GB).

Implementing RAID 5 on the ShareCenter Pro allows it to continue operating even if one of the disks fails.

The diagram below indicates the operation of RAID 5:

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