Re: what's wrong with RAID-10?

[David T-G <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org>]

Wol, et al --

...and then Wols Lists said...
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% On 27/06/2022 11:41, David T-G wrote:
% > 
% > ...and then Wols Lists said...
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% > % Bummer. It's a raid-10. A raid-1 would have been easier.
% > [snip]
% > 
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% > just one hard drive size, ie 6T on 4ea 3T drives.  How would RAID-1 work
% > for that storage?  And why would it be easier than RAID-10?
% > 
% Just that raid-1 would have been a simple case of two drives, each a backup
% of the other. Keep one safe, put the other in the new system.

OH!!  That helps.  I was bummer-ing the wrong aspect and trying to
figure out why RAID-10 was a bad design choice.  Now i get it :-)


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% With raid-10, it's much more complicated - you can't just do that :-(

Yeah.


% 
% Cheers,
% Wol


Thanks again!

:-D
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