Drew put forth on 2/2/2011 9:36 PM: > You tell me. Given 1 in 3 odds of surviving a second disk failure or 2 > in 3 odds, which would you choose? :-) This is also why few, if any, hardware RAID vendors offer RAID 0+1. Most (all?) offer only RAID 10. However, due to the RAID level migrations offered by some hardware RAID controllers, a customer can actually end up with a RAID 0+1 array if they go through a specific migration/expansion path. Obviously you'd want to avoid those paths. -- Stan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html