John Plemons wrote: > On 3/4/2013 11:12 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> I'm going to rebuild my system at home soon, and was planning to mirror >> two drives. However, I was just looking up something about RAID, and on >> wikipedia found some information about the Linux MD driver, and "near" >> and >> "far" RAID10. >> >> Anyone have some opinions about them? >> >> mark "or should that be how many opinions do folks have >> about them?" >> > Raid 10 is a mirrored stripped set of at least 4 driver. You get the > best of both worlds, data speed and data back up.. I'm well aware of that. However, I'm only buying two drives, and was going to just mirror them, but if I can get more speed.... This is what I'm reading <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#Linux_MD_RAID_10>, and it seems to be a non-standard RAID, with several options, and the first uses only two drives. mark