RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) is the combining of multiple disks to mimic a single hardware storage device. Depending on the type, or “level”, RAID increases performance, capacity, and fault tolerance in some combination. So, what is RAID 60?<\/p>\n
If you read our article on RAID 0<\/a>, which distributes (stripes) data across all the disks in the array without any parity or duplication, you may have been scared off by its complete lack of fault tolerance.<\/p>\n However, you can leverage its superior speed and add fault tolerance by replacing individual disks with nested RAID nodes\/sub-arrays that do offer that feature. In this case: RAID 6<\/a>, the 6 in 60 (or 6+0, 0+6) which writes two sets of parity info across member disks.<\/p>\nWhat is Parity Info?<\/h2>\n