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XRAID2 vs RAID6, etc.
I've got an RN104 on the way and I'd like to better understand my configuration options. To start with, I have to admit that I'm planning on using 3x2TB Caviar Greens to start with (WD20EARX); I kn...
mdgm wrote:
By default an X-RAID volume with 3 or more equal sized (or where only the largest capacity disk has a different capacity) disks will be using RAID-5.
If you switch to Flex-RAID (disable X-RAID) you can choose to have the next disk added convert the volume to RAID-6, then after that re-enable X-RAID again.
So in the 4.x software you can tell XRAID that you wanted two parity drives, why in OS6 do you have to do a multistep process in enabling it? If I do these steps in OS6 will this come back and bite me later on?
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