Hi Kamil,

You’d get a bit more space by configuring your 4 drives as a RAID5 array (3TB 
usable for RAID5, vs 2TB usable for RAID10).  The downside of RAID5 is that the 
RAID10 (or the one LV with two RAID1 PVs — they amount to the same thing for 
this discussion) can survive loosing two drives at once — if they happen to be 
the right two drives: i.e. not both sides of a single mirrored pair — while 
RAID5 would not be able to survive any failure that involved two drives at 
once.  Either configuration would survive loosing any one single drive, of 
course.

If you want to be able to survive simultaneous loss of any two drives, you 
should look at RAID6, which would have the same usable capacity (2TB) as the 
RAID10.

Just my two cents…

Rick

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