From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Thompson Subject: raid 10f2 vs 1 on 2 drives Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 15:33:40 -0400 Message-ID: <20120522193340.GM27769@electro-mechanical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids I understand that raid 10 f2 is slower on writes due to the location of the 2nd copy. My question is, if lots of writes are performed, could this layout wearout the drives quicker than raid 1?