Hello, On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 11:46:42AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > > David T-G writes: > > > RAID10 is striping AND mirroring (leaving out for the moment the distinction > > of striping mirrors vs mirroring stripes). How can one have both with only > > two disks?? You either stripe the two disks together for more storage or > > mirror them for redundant storage, but I just don't see how one could do both. > > In the default near layout, you don't get the striping with only two > disks; it is identical to raid1. While the *layout* would be identical to RAID-1 in this case, there is the difference that a single threaded read will come from both devices with RAID-10, right? Cheers, Andy