On 14/09/20 18:19, Phillip Susi wrote: > > antlists writes: > >> Yup. Raid 6 has two parity disks, and that's mirrored to give four >> parity disks. So as an *absolute* *minimum*, raid-61 could lose four >> disks with no data loss. > > Don't you mean 5 disks? > > At best 4 lost disks paired off in each raid1 means the raid6 sees two > failures. One more disk failing isn't enough to take out another mirror > so the raid6 keeps ticking. > Well caught !!! Cheers, Wol
