Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:07:48 +0100 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: RAID 5+0 support |
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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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