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Re:The Battle Agaist Any Raid Five initiative (2016) by theandrewbailey on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:46AM (#17513865)
Phew! I guess RAID-6 is good.

Probably not.

Re:The Battle Agaist Any Raid Five initiative (2016) by gnode on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:42PM (#17525014)
I'd argue that is is. In their arguments against RAID5 ( http://www.baarf.dk/BAARF/RAID5_versus_RAID10.txt ):

> OK here is the deal, RAID5 uses ONLY ONE parity drive per stripe

In RAID-6 you have multiple redundancy, so the probability of complete failure can be arbitrarily reduced. However, most people go with RAID-5 because they haven't got enough disks for RAID-6 to make sense, whereas if you have loads (like Backblaze for instance using 3 parity out of 15 disks) then it does make sense.

Re:The Battle Agaist Any Raid Five initiative (2016) by batbomb on Thursday July 12, 2018 @08:51AM (#17513883)
It’s fine, especially with solid state drives.