News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on How to: Compete with Amazon S3 without Buying Hardware. Parent comment

Re:How to: Compete with Amazon S3 without Buying Hardware by Terretta on Friday April 27, 2012 @04:41PM (#3900947)
>> This article is basically advocating RAID 5 across many storage providers.

> That is correct.

The diagram in the article and text description is RAID 1+0 aka RAID 10.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:How to: Compete with Amazon S3 without Buying Hardware by Dylan16807 on Friday April 27, 2012 @08:53PM (#3901665)
No, it's RAID 5. Well, specifically, it's RAID 6 but customizable. You can lose any k drives.
[ Parent | on HN ]