On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:34:57 +1000 (EST), Peter Kiem <zordah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > > RAID 10 (or a striped mirror) will increase the > > redundancy of a stripe. Have 4 disks (if using an IDE > > RAID controller it's perfect for this), stripe each > > set of two and mirror the 2 stripes. You boost your > > No, you should make two mirrors first and then stripe the mirrors (like > you started saying - striped mirror). I'm surprised no one has posted a link to this yet: http://www.miracleas.dk/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt -- Ben Steeves ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 http://www.metacon.ca/