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