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Stripsets with parity come in 2 flavors: RAID4 and RAID5. Under RAID4, all the parity stripes are stored on the same physical volume. This can become a bottleneck because all writes hit that physical volume, and it gets worse the more physical volumes are in the array. With RAID5, the parity data is distributed evenly across the physical volumes so none of them become a bottleneck. For that reason, RAID4 is rare and is considered obsolete/historical. In practice, all stripesets with parity are RAID5.