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    6X 1TB 7200 - What is better to do with this? Raid XX ?

    Hi there. It's my first experience with 6x disks. I have used 4x, 8x, 16x but 6x never used!

    I'm always work with Raid-10, but with 6x Raid 10 is not possible.

    The server don't have hardware raid card, I'll need to use software raid!

    I have an option to get 8x, but I wants to use this other 2 spaces for 1x 1TB (Local backups) and 1x 512 SSD.

    Someone have an experience with 6x disks software raid?

    Thanks for help!

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    You certainly can do RAID-10 with six drives. The only requirement for RAID-10 is having an even number of drives that is equal or greater than four. That would be my recommendation as well.
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    It depends what your goal is. Performance + Reliability then Raid-10. If the goal is just more storage then Raid-5 or Raid-6.

    Also, software raid on linux works just fine.

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    Keep in mind that RAID-5 and RAID-6 carry a much higher CPU overhead than RAID-10, so while you can get more storage with RAID-5, the performance will be considerably lower not only because of the RAID-5 design, but also because the CPU will be more heavily tasked.
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    Yaaaa... lol... I think that with 6 drives we can't use for raid10.

    Raid 10 is always the best. And as I see, without hw raid, using software raid. It's not bad. Good speed with sw raid 10.

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    No, you can use 6 drives in Raid-10. Its very common and many do it to give additional space requirements or IO benefits from the additional drives and higher stripe level.
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    Think after 4, only 8 will be accepted. =)

    Anyway thank you!

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    RAID 10 is a series of two or more striped RAID-1 arrays (pairs).

    Each drive (letters) is mirrored, for example:

    Drive A1 and Drive A2 are a RAID-1 pair, let's call it Array A. Drive A1 and A2 are identical images of each other.
    Drive B1 and Drive B2 are a second RAID-1 pair, calling it Array B. Drive B1 and B2 are identical to each other as well.

    You then create a RAID-0 of RAID A and RAID B, making it a RAID-1 + RAID-0: 1+0 = 10.

    You can have additional sets of RAID-1 arrays or pairs, and create a RAID-10 with however many pairs. They just need to be an even number. Many of our servers hold exactly six drives, and most of them are setup as a RAID-10 so it is definitely doable.

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    op is using the word "think" and meaning "thought". thats why you all are confused.

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    Good catch.
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    If you don't have a RAID card, I would consider going with ZFS. If your OS supports it, it's a really cool and robust filesystem with redundancy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TMS - JoseQ View Post
    Keep in mind that RAID-5 and RAID-6 carry a much higher CPU overhead than RAID-10, so while you can get more storage with RAID-5, the performance will be considerably lower not only because of the RAID-5 design, but also because the CPU will be more heavily tasked.
    That's why I commented that it depends on the goal, and how Raid-10 is the route to go for performance, and Raid-5/6 for just storage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by reldegart View Post
    op is using the word "think" and meaning "thought". thats why you all are confused.
    Sorry my English is not good at all.

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    You can definitely use 6 Hard drives with RAID10. Have you tried it yet?
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    You can absolutely use 6 disks for RAID 10.

    I like this site that explains pros and cons of each RAID setup - http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/...vels-tutorial/
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    RAID10 only needs to have an even number of drives when the RAID1's it's built on top of are comprised of 2 drives. Keep in mind RAID1 does not have to be 2 drives exactly, you can have 3, 4, 5, or any number in a RAID1 so long as it's 2 or more. So you can very well have a 9x drive RAID10 if it consists of striping across 3x RAID1's with 3x drives each. Generally, you won't find anyone using more than 2 drives in a RAID1, but there are situations where it could make sense to do so. For instance, with 4x drives and software RAID, you could have a RAID1 cross all 4x drives for /boot as you cannot boot from RAID10.
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