RAID clarification

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Published on 2010-05-04T04:34:16Z Indexed on 2010/05/04 4:38 UTC
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Ok, I thought I understood RAID, but I'm looking at images from Wikipedia, and it doesn't seem like I do. For example, take this image:alt text

What does the 'parity' do? For example, what happens if Disk 2 suddenly fails? How does the system recover?

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