From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: from 2x RAID1 to 1x RAID6 ?
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:06:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEF2D79.50009@xunil.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DEEBB66.7080802@nybeta.com>
Am 08.06.2011 01:59, schrieb Thomas Harold:
> Well, with both a pair of RAID1 arrays and a pair of RAID-10 arrays, you
> can lose 2 disks without losing data, but only if the right 2 disks fail.
>
> With RAID6, any two of the four can fail without data loss.
Yes, that was my initial reason to try that.
> (I still prefer RAID-10 over RAID-6 unless space is at an absolute
> premium. But for a four-disk setup, net disk space is the same and it's
> just a question of whether you want the speed of RAID-10 or the
> reliability of RAID-6.)
Reliability. There are backups done to that array.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-08 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-07 18:12 from 2x RAID1 to 1x RAID6 ? Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-06-07 20:07 ` Maurice Hilarius
2011-06-07 23:59 ` Thomas Harold
2011-06-08 8:06 ` Stefan G. Weichinger [this message]
2011-06-08 9:38 ` David Brown
2011-06-08 10:11 ` John Robinson
2011-06-08 10:33 ` David Brown
2011-06-08 14:20 ` Phil Turmel
2011-06-08 14:42 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-06-09 13:18 ` Nikolay Kichukov
2011-06-09 13:42 ` David Brown
2011-06-08 1:16 ` John Robinson
2011-06-08 8:16 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2011-06-08 9:43 ` David Brown
2011-06-08 12:31 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
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