On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Benjamin Franz <jfranz at freerun.com> wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: >> >> No, not yet, but I always recommend setting up your data arrays >> manually so your intimately familiar with how they are constructed >> and >> the mdadm command usage is fresh in your head. >> >> Did you know with Neil's raid10 implementation you can store 3 copies >> of the data so ANY two drives can fail before you start playing >> Russian roulette! >> > > You can do that with RAID1+0, too. You can setup RAID1 with more > than 2 > drives. I have one system with an 8-way RAID1 for the OS. Yes, but you can use a lot less drives to get the same IOPS with Neil's module (which technically isn't RAID10 at all but a whole new RAID level). -Ross