RAID10 requires at least 4 drives does it not? Since it's a strip set of mirrored disks, the smallest configuration I can see is 4 disks, 2 mirrored pairs stripped. On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com> wrote: > I have been reading lots of stuff but trying to find out if a raid10 2drive > setup is any better/worse than a normal raid 1 setup....I have to 1Tb drives > for my data and a seperate system drive, I am only interested in doing raid > on my data... > > > So i setup my initial test like this.... > > mdadm -v --create /dev/md0 --chunk 1024 --level=raid10 --raid-devices=2 > /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 > > > I have also read about near and far but was going to play with this and was > wondering if anyone had any insights for 2 drives setup...Thanks... > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Jacob Bresciani Linux Systems Administrator Advanced Ecommerce Research Systems / Terapeak Cell: 250 418-5412 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100924/e8c908ce/attachment-0005.html>