Merlin Moncure writes:
there are reasons to go with raid 5 or other raids. where I work we often do 14 drive raid 6 plus 1 hot swap on a 15 drive tray.
Raid 5 is different from raid 6.... To say that there are times it's ok to use RAID 5 and then say you use raid 6... well... doesn't really say anything about raid 5.
Also, what controller are you using?