Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 5 authors, 2013-10-11

Re: Best practice for setting up "ordinary" RAID

From: Mikael Abrahamsson <hidden>
Date: 2013-10-11 07:19:58

On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Guillaume Betous wrote:
As I read that algorithm on the RAID 6 are way more complex, and rebuild 
time is longer, as I have only a Atom D510 as CPU, I consider that RAID 
5 is a better option.
It's an old myth that RAID6 uses a lot of CPU. It doesn't, not even 
considering you have an Atom D510.
But if you can explain that RAID 6 have pros I haven't seen, I'll
surely swith to RAID 6 (always want to learn :) ).
RAID6 will help you with drive failure plus random read error. RAID5 
doesn't do that.

My recommendation to you is to convert your RAID5+spare to RAID6.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se
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