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From: Adam Goryachev <mailinglists@websitemanagers.com.au>
Subject: Re: Best practice for setting up "ordinary" RAID
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:05:23 +1100
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On 11/10/13 17:52, Guillaume Betous wrote:
>> RAID6, preferrably with a spare.
> I'm not comfortable with RAID 6 setup. What is the minimal number of
> hard drives for having a RAID 6 + spare ?
>

Check wikipedia, but minimum of 4 drives for RAID6, consider 2 data
drives plus two redundant drives, allowing you to lose any two drives
(slightly better than RAID10 on 4 drives).

In direct answer, RAID6 + hot spare is a minimum of 5 drives.

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Adam


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