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RAID 4RAID Level 4

A placement policy using parity-based protection where logical blocks of data are uniformly distributed across a set of independent storage devices and where the parity is stored on a dedicated independent storage device.

Data stored using this form of RAID is able to survive a single storage device failure without data loss.

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