> 
> Hi Larry,
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> In fairness to the vendor, I was also looking at their 5-disk thunderbolt 
> units.  It was in reference to those that they said thunderbolt does not 
> support RAID 5 or RAID 10.
> 
> Sorry for the confusion.  I was trying to keep my original message short, and 
> in the process I forgot to include some relevant information.
> 
> Nevertheless, it seems as if some vendors (such as the one you cited) do 
> support various other RAID configurations with their thunderbolt arrays.
> 
> What about my inquiry about trying to use Disk Utility to fashion my own RAID 
> 10 from a pair of 2-disk units?  Do you think that's possible?


Fair enough.  Yeah Raid 5 requires at least three disks.  You could do software 
raid  but I always found the disk utility raid to be a little flaky.  If you 
want to do software raid then take a look at SoftRaid, it works pretty well.

—Larry

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