Can someone explain the physical architecture of RAID 10 in complete layman's terms?

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Published on 2011-01-07T14:20:16Z Indexed on 2011/01/07 14:55 UTC
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I am a newbie in the world of storage and I am having a hard time digesting the physical architecture of some of the RAID levels. I am particularly interested in RAID 10, and 50. I asked the question specifically about RAID 10, because I feel if I understand that, I'll understand the other.

So, I get the definition of RAID 10 - "minimum 4 disks, a striped array whose segments are mirrored". If I've got 4 disks and Disks 1 and 2 are a mirrored pair, and Disks 3 and 4 are a mirrored pair - where does the data get striped?

Thanks.

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