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6b. What's the difference between RAID1+0 and RAID0+1?
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In short: RAID1+0 concatenates two mirrored arrays while RAID0+1 mirrors two
- concatenated arrays.
+ concatenated arrays. However, the two are also often switched.
- RAID1+0 has a greater chance to survive two disk failures, its performance
- suffers less when in degraded state, and it resyncs faster after replacing
- a failed disk. See http://aput.net/~jheiss/raid10/ for more details.
+ The linux MD driver supports RAID10, which is equivalent to the above
+ RAID1+0 definition.
+
+ RAID1+0/10 has a greater chance to survive two disk failures, its
+ performance suffers less when in degraded state, and it resyncs faster after
+ replacing a failed disk.
+
+ See http://aput.net/~jheiss/raid10/ for more details.
7. Which RAID10 layout scheme should I use
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