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On Wednesday 28 July 2021 19:26:15 Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:03:01PM +0200, deloptes wrote:
> > Dan Ritter wrote:
> > >> Raid6 sounds promising. Equivalent capacity is also one drive?
> > >
> > > No, you actually get about 2 drives of capacity out of 4 here.
> >
> > You get N-1, so from 4x2TB disks you get close to 6TB RAID6 (you
> > have also various FS layer overhead)
>
> RAID-5 is N-1.  With 4 disks in a RAID-5 configuration, you'd get 3
> disks worth of usable storage.
>
> RAID-6 is N-2.  With 4 disks in a RAID-6 configuration, you'd get 2
> disks worth of usable storage.

Thanks Greg. Raid-6 sounds the most dependable.  Stuff is ordered.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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how best to do Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-07-28 15:50 +0200
  Re: how best to do Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-07-28 17:10 +0200
    Re: how best to do Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-07-28 18:00 +0200
      Re: how best to do Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-07-28 18:40 +0200
        Re: how best to do deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-07-28 23:10 +0200
          Re: how best to do Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-29 01:30 +0200
            Re: how best to do deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-07-29 02:50 +0200
            Re: how best to do Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-07-29 03:20 +0200
        Re: how best to do Keith Bainbridge <keithrboz@gmail.com> - 2021-07-29 05:50 +0200
          Re: how best to do Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-07-29 10:00 +0200
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  Re: how best to do Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-07-28 18:40 +0200
    Re: how best to do Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-07-28 19:10 +0200
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