Software RAID Levels

The following software RAID levels are available.

RAID Level	Description	Disks Required	Redundancy
0	Striping	2-36	No
RAID- 1	Mirroring	2	Yes
RAID 0+1	Mirroring of striped disks	2-36
RAID 1+0	Striping of mirrored disks or RAID-10	4-36 (even number only)	Yes
3	Striping with dedicated parity.	3-31	Yes
5	Striping with distributed parity.	3-31	Yes
6	striping with double distributed parity	2-36	Yes

For more information about software RAID levels, see Working with Software RAID in Oracle Linux 8: Managing Storage Devices or Oracle Linux 9: Managing Storage Devices.