From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
Subject: Re: What's the typical RAID10 setup?
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:18:24 -0600
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Drew put forth on 2/2/2011 9:36 PM:

> You tell me. Given 1 in 3 odds of surviving a second disk failure or 2
> in 3 odds, which would you choose? :-)

This is also why few, if any, hardware RAID vendors offer RAID 0+1.  Most (all?)
offer only RAID 10.  However, due to the RAID level migrations offered by some
hardware RAID controllers, a customer can actually end up with a RAID 0+1 array
if they go through a specific migration/expansion path.  Obviously you'd want to
avoid those paths.

-- 
Stan