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miogpsrocks
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May 31, 2020

Any advantage of recovering with 6 drives vs 5 drives?

Hello.    I believe my readynas device has issues but the actual hard drives are good.    I have like an RAID5 type array.    If I am using a raid recovery software, is there any advantage to r...
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StephenB
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May 31, 2020
miogpsrocks wrote:

If I am using a raid recovery software, is there any advantage to recovering with 6 drives vs 5 drives? 

 

If the drives are all solid, then it would be faster to recover with all drives.  The recovery software wouldn't need to reconstruct any data blocks from the parity blocks.

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