RAID6 is a method of configuring fault-tolerant hard drive storage. It is similar to RAID5, but differs in that it writes two sets of parity information, thus can survive the simultaneous failure of two hard drives.
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Which is better: RAID5 + 1 Hotspare / RAID6?
Just curious, I have 6 x 1TB 7200RPM Near Line SAS for my new server. I can either configure it as RAID5+1 Hot Spare or RAID6.
What should I choose?
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3 drives fell out of Raid6 mdadm - rebuilding?
i had an mdadm raid6 array with 13x1TB drives. Within 10 minutes 3 of these drives fell out of the array... we assume bad cable to the controller card and replaced, however now we need to get the ...
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Convert a Smart Array RAID5 array to a RAID6 (ADG) variant
I have an HP MicroServer (N36L) with a SmartArray P410 controller, a 512MB BBWC unit and four (4) 2TB disks connected. Three of those disks are configured as a single RAID5 array and one is left ...
