Feb
Parity Loss and RAID Data Recovery
Parity is the common technique used to detect system memory errors and it holds the similar functionality for RAID. The idea of introducing parity in RAID is to enhance data protection. Parity information is basically redundancy information that is calculated from the actual data values and is stored on a separate disk or across all the participating disks. But you may fall in critical situation of data loss if you lose this parity information. The only solution that allows you to get lost data back in such situations is
Parity is calculated as result of a logical operation, for example XOR or OR. The XOR operator gives true results if any of the operands is true. The truth table thus generated is used for mirroring redundancy technique. If you apply RAID parity, that will cost you high because data is duplicated over drives.