What is RAID 5E?

RAID 5E is a sort of nested RAID degree that is similar to RAID 5, but includes an included Hot Spare force.

The E in RAID 5E stands for "extended" as it adds on or extends the competencies of RAID 5. The prolonged spare pressure is a part of the overall RAID 5E and may be used for Input/Output operations.

What Does RAID 5E Mean?

The addition of a warm spare pressure within RAID 5E facilitates in dispensing I/O load or operations, resulting in better overall perFormance than RAID five. The warm spare pressure created inside the RAID 5E can most effective be used inside the identical Array, no longer another RAID 5 or 5E array.

This spare force typically remains idle and is used when a drive within the array Fails. RAID 5E stripes statistics and Parity statistics over all the drives inside the array. RAID 5E may be created with at the very least four drives and a maximum of sixteen drives in a single array.