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SubjectRe: RAID 5+0 support
On 2006-01-19T12:26:10, Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:

> Why on earth would you want to stripe two raid-5's instead of using one
> raid-5 that is twice as big? You'd get more usable disk space that way.

If redundancy is the goal - to be able to withstand two drive failures
-, RAID6 would be the considerably better choice.


Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée

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SUSE Labs, Research and Development
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