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Question

When one disk fails in a RAID 5 array with a hot spare, which one of the following statements is true?

a.

No IO can continue

b.

Reads continue from hot spare, but writes fail

c.

Both reads and writes can continue

d.

Array must be shut down immediately for replacing the failed disk

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Answer: (c).Both reads and writes can continue

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Q. When one disk fails in a RAID 5 array with a hot spare, which one of the following statements is true?