experiences with RAID 6

[blkish]

without knowing your exact situation i would recommend raid 1+0 as a
good compromise between performance and availability.



with the price of IDE disks falling all the time a 4-disk setup can
give a lot of bang for your buck (4 discs = 2 mirrored raid 0 arrays,
can loose 1 disc from each pair and remain functional)



if you're at all concerned about the availability of your data (ie
production environment) i would also seriously recommend considering a
(proper - 3ware for IDE, LSI etc for SCSI) hardware raid card.



blkish


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