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RAID 6RAID Level 6

A placement policy using parity-based protection for storing stripes of 'n' logical blocks of data and two logical blocks of independent parity across a set of 'n+2' independent storage devices where the parity and data blocks are interleaved across the storage devices.

Data stored using this form of RAID is able to survive any two independent storage device failures without data loss.

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