RAID-5 calculates a bit-by-bit XOR parity stripe for each corresponding block stripe across all disks. How many disks will be involved when updating one block of data to a RAID-5 storage? Give the reasons.

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RAID-5 calculates a bit-by-bit XOR parity stripe for each corresponding block stripe across all disks. How many disks will be involved when updating one block of data to a RAID-5 storage? Give the reasons.

• Hint: take the characteristics of XOR operation into consideration  

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