[G4] EIDE and Ultra ATA RAID

Ralph Garrett ralphbones at kc.rr.com
Mon Apr 25 13:32:34 PDT 2005


On Apr 25, 2005, at 3:25 PM, shopdog wrote:

> How does RAID 10 work, and how many drives to you need minimum?
>

The bare minimum would use 4 drives in a RAID 10. 2 drives would be 
striped for the first array and 2 drives striped for the second array. 
The second array would be a mirror of the first array. Any drive that 
fails has a backup copy to recreate the data with no loss.

Ralph



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