How about a quick picture, O = good disk, X = failed disk,
Stripe of mirrors:
X O X -|-|- O X O
A mirror of stripes:
X|O|O
O|X|O
AH...I forgot we were on SIX disks and not four. :P
My Apologies I thought the thread was "RAID5 or RAID50 for database?".
I will next time look out for the hijacking and take appropriate action.
Yeah...it did become a general raid whatever thing...can you imagine it become anything else if you put a raid5 and a database question together?