Hi, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
>> Hmm. You'd have eight disks, five(!) may fail at any time, giving you
>
> Four, isn't it?
> RAID6 covers the failure of 2 of the underlying RAID1s, which, in turn,
> means failures of 2 disks each, so four. Sometimes even 5, yes - given the
> right ones fail.
No -- with any four failed disks you still do not have a single point of
failure. Only when you take out two RAID1 pairs and one disk in a third
pair does the second disk in that third pair become a SPOF.
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