I got into an argument with a colleague about RAID levels (specifically RAID5) and whether the redundancy was accomplished through parity or ECC. The standard sources all refer to the RAID5 array ...
Pick the wrong RAID level, and you might end up losing all your data ...
I understand the concept of how raid 5 works, but the parity still confuses me. From what I understand the parity for all of the drives is distributed across the drives in such a way that each drive ...