> 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?