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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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How bad is it really to install Linux on one big partition?

We will be running CentOS 7 on our new server. We have 6 x 300GB drives in raid6 internal to the server. (Storage is largely external in the form of a 40TB raid box.) The internal volume comes to about 1.3TB if formatted as a single volume. Our…
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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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Why is RAID 1+6 not a more common layout?

Why are the nested RAID levels 1+5 or 1+6 almost unheard of? The nested RAID levels Wikipedia article is currently missing their sections. I don't understand why they are not more common than RAID 1+0, especially when compared to RAID 1+0 triple…
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Linux mdadm software RAID 6 - does it support bit corruption recovery?

Wikipedia says "RAID 2 is the only standard RAID level, other than some implementations of RAID 6, which can automatically recover accurate data from single-bit corruption in data." Does anyone know if the RAID 6 mdadm implementation in Linux is one…
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What's the difference between a "degraded" RAID 6 array and a "clean" RAID 5 array?

Suppose you have two RAID arrays, one with N disks and one with N+1 disks. The array with N disks was formatted as a RAID 5 and left alone, while the other array was formatted as a RAID 6 before one of its disks was removed. Now both arrays have N…
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Convert linux software raid from raid5 to raid6

I currently have a file server with 3 1.5TB disks in a RAID5 array. Since it's pretty much full, I got three additional disks (also 1.5TB each). Now I'd like to switch to RAID6 since 6TB space is enough and I'd like to have the increased safety of…
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RAID 6 array, one disk rebuilding?

I have got a 10 disk (16 TB) RAID-6 array (AVAGO MegaRAID SAS 9380-8e) in a Supermicro JBOD enclosure. The controller started beeping today and one disk is blinking red/blue. I entered the AVAGO control software and 9 of the disks are shown as…
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Windows Storage Spaces - a useful replacement for RAID6?

// short update at the bottom // another update is near the bottom to reply to a suggested edit So, at first I had this idea: Find a virtual driver to set up and use software raid on windows. Result: Failed even with support from developer. The next…
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Areca 1280ml RAID6 volume set failed

Today we hit some kind of worst case scenario and are open to any kind of good ideas. Here is our problem: We are using several dedicated storage servers to host our virtual machines. Before I continue, here are the specs: Dedicated Server…
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Is it safe to write data to a RAID 6 while it's rebuilding?

I have a test RAID controller on my network which hosts a very large RAID 6 (11 drives, 3TB each). One of the drives failed, and the array is now rebuilding. At this rate, I think it will take about 3 days to finish. If I write new data to the…
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Minimum number of disks to implement RAID6

RAID6 is intended to provide fault tolerance in the event 2 disks fail. What is the minimum number of disks required to implement RAID6? thanks
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Optimal RAID 6+0 Setup for 40+ 4TB Disks

I am setting up a JBOD containing 44 4TB 7200 RPM SAS HDs. I chose RAID 60 as I prefer drive failure protection over the performance improvements offered by RAID 10. My issue is how to choose the optimal disks per span that would results in a…
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Is it possible to ask ReFS to use hardware RAID6 for parity calculations?

Does ReFS use FPGA-based XOR engines for RAID parity calculations? If not, is it possible to get it to use such tech?
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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 alone. I'd like to migrate the RAID5 array to a RAID6…
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RAID6 resync with fast writes but slow reads

I'm using Debian Jessie. # uname -a Linux host 4.9.0-0.bpo.3-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.30-2+deb9u5~bpo8+1 (2017-09-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux And have setup a RAID6. # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid1] md0 : active raid6…
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