On a file server in a production environment I would prefer raid 6.
Am 29.12.20 um 08:45 schrieb Felix Miata:
> Thomas A. Anderson composed on 2020-12-29 07:58 (UTC+0100):
>
>> I have been "using" mdadm to run software raid1 (stripping) on a file
>> server i have been running.
>
> RAID 1 is two devices that are mirrors of each other, redundancy, with some
> loss
> in speed. Loose one device, and you still have all your data.
>
> RAID 0 is striping. One device failing means all data lost from two devices,
> but
> twice as much space as RAID 1, and some extra speed.
>
