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Stripsets with parity come in 2 flavors: RAID 4 and RAID 5. Under RAID 4, 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 RAID 5, the parity data is distributed evenly across the physical volumes so none of them become a bottleneck. For that reason, RAID 4 is rare and is considered obsolete/historical. In practice, all stripesets with parity are RAID 5.