RAID 6E

What Does RAID 6E Mean?

RAID 6E is a type of RAID 6 configuration with an integrated hot spare drive in which the spare drive is active in the block rotation scheme.

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The addition of a hot spare drive enables increased performance and reliability by replacing a failed drive.. In the beginning, spare drive could only be used per array, not with other RAID arrays. However, more recent advances in SAN architecture and controller design have made it possible for several arrays to share hot spares.

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