[ale] raid suggestions

[Lightner, Jeff]

RAID6 is like RAID5 with 2 parity disks so stripes across the disks and is reasonably fast and unlike RAID5 can survive 2 disks failing.

When the money and disks are available RAID10 is even better as it does striping and mirroring and can also survive 2 disks failures.





-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Myers
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:54 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] raid suggestions

I've not played with raid stuff of late.  What is the recommended
configuration for a small business these days?  Definitely want data
protection, but don't want to sacrifice a lot of speed for that purpose.

Thoughts?

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