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Re:The Battle Agaist Any Raid Five initiative (2016) by korinthian on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:12AM (#17521513)
> just one parity drive

That's not RAID5, that's RAID4.

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Re:The Battle Agaist Any Raid Five initiative (2016) by krylon on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:40AM (#17521609)
Technically true, but with RAID5, you still only get one drive's worth of redundancy, no matter how many drives are in the array.
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Re:The Battle Agaist Any Raid Five initiative (2016) by tinus_hn on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:11AM (#17522203)
That is the trade off. It’s not exactly a revelation given the definition of RAID 5.
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