On Wednesday 28 July 2021 19:26:15 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:03:01PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > >> Raid6 sounds promising. Equivalent capacity is also one drive? > > > > > > No, you actually get about 2 drives of capacity out of 4 here. > > > > You get N-1, so from 4x2TB disks you get close to 6TB RAID6 (you > > have also various FS layer overhead) > > RAID-5 is N-1. With 4 disks in a RAID-5 configuration, you'd get 3 > disks worth of usable storage. > > RAID-6 is N-2. With 4 disks in a RAID-6 configuration, you'd get 2 > disks worth of usable storage.
Thanks Greg. Raid-6 sounds the most dependable. Stuff is ordered. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
