An array of disk groups. Used in RAID level-10, level-50, and level-60 to permit the use of larger numbers of physical drives. Each disk group in a spanned disk group contains a sub-logical device, which can be RAID level-0, level-1, level-5, or level-6. The RAID-level for the logical device contained within the spanned disk group is 0.
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