• JonnyRobbie@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    what’s the advantage of raid 5&6 over something like raid 4&5 - it reads essentially the same to me - a parity redundancy.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      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.