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Re: how best to do



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.


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