why use raid 5,6? raid1 isn´t more secure? 2011/4/2 Roman Mamedov <rm@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 22:45:58 +0100 > Simon Mcnair <simonmcnair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> One last thing.... I've never heard of anyone using a raid 05. Why >> wouldn't you use a RAID50 ? Please can you dish the dirt on what >> benefit there is ? (I would have thought a raid50 would have been >> better with no disadvantages ?). I thought that raid10 & 50 were the >> main ones in use in 'the industry'. > > RAID5/6 with some RAID0 (or JBOD) members is what you use when you want to > include differently-sized devices into the array: > http://louwrentius.com/blog/2008/08/building-a-raid-6-array-of-mixed-drives/ > -- > With respect, > Roman > -- Roberto Spadim Spadim Technology / SPAEmpresarial -- 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