Multiple choice technology

Minimum disks required to configure RAID 5

  1. 5

  2. 2

  3. 1

  4. 3
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Explanation

RAID 5 uses distributed parity across all disks and requires a minimum of 3 disks to function. With 2 disks, you can only create RAID 0 (striping) or RAID 1 (mirroring). RAID 5 needs at least 3 disks to distribute parity blocks while maintaining data redundancy - it can survive a single disk failure.

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