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XRAID-2 Hot Spare or Expansion with FlexRaid
I've seen a few messages a year old regarding hot spare support on X-RAID. I would really like to see hot spare support on the ReadyNAS pro with XRAID2. I know there is auto expansion to consider bu...
Umm, raid 5 with a hot spare would provide the same storage capacity and using the same amount of drives as a dual redundant raid 6 volume.
Plus, while the hot spare was resyncing, a 2nd failure would kill the volume. This wouldn't happen with raid 6 or an otherwise dual redundant volume.
Same overhead, same capacity, raid 5 with a hot spare is riskier.
Plus, while the hot spare was resyncing, a 2nd failure would kill the volume. This wouldn't happen with raid 6 or an otherwise dual redundant volume.
Same overhead, same capacity, raid 5 with a hot spare is riskier.
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