renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days agoMan I miss those classy RedHat ads from the sixtieslemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1651arrow-down112
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minus-squareJonnyRobbie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agowhat’s the advantage of raid 5&6 over something like raid 4&5 - it reads essentially the same to me - a parity redundancy.
minus-squareInverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-29 days ago4 is bad because parity is on one drive so no matter what happens that drive is the write bottleneck. Raid5 is basically raid4 + raid0. 5 is just fine but low safety, I run 6 always and it has basically never let me down.
what’s the advantage of raid 5&6 over something like raid 4&5 - it reads essentially the same to me - a parity redundancy.
4 is bad because parity is on one drive so no matter what happens that drive is the write bottleneck. Raid5 is basically raid4 + raid0.
5 is just fine but low safety, I run 6 always and it has basically never let me down.