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> RAID-4 on top of RAID-4 is actually just a two-dimentional
> parity. RAID-5 on top of RAID-5 is very similar.

er. RAID-4 is as RAID-5, but with dedicated parity disk.
RAID-6 is with two-dimentional parity

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