@renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agoMan I miss those classy RedHat ads from the sixtieslemmy.worldimagemessage-square105fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageMan I miss those classy RedHat ads from the sixtieslemmy.world@renzev@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 month agomessage-square105fedilink
minus-square@JonnyRobbie@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 month agowhat’s the advantage of raid 5&6 over something like raid 4&5 - it reads essentially the same to me - a parity redundancy.
minus-square@InverseParallax@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•edit-21 month ago4 is bad because parity is on one drive so no matter what happens that drive is the write bottleneck. Raid5 is basically raid4 + raid0. 5 is just fine but low safety, I run 6 always and it has basically never let me down.
what’s the advantage of raid 5&6 over something like raid 4&5 - it reads essentially the same to me - a parity redundancy.
4 is bad because parity is on one drive so no matter what happens that drive is the write bottleneck. Raid5 is basically raid4 + raid0.
5 is just fine but low safety, I run 6 always and it has basically never let me down.