[Novalug] best hard disk setup for home file server?

Aaron Porter atporter@gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 02:37:55 EDT 2009


On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Brandon Saxe <brandon20va@yahoo.com> wrote:
> The wikipedia explains how Linux raid10 works and how it works with odd number of disks:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels#Linux_MD_RAID_10

Including the part where it basically says "this is not RAID10".

"The 4-drive example is identical to a standard RAID-1+0 array, while
the 3-drive example is a software implementation of RAID-1E. The
2-drive example is equivalent RAID 1."



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