raid 6 vs raid 10? which would you choose.

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Published on 2010-03-08T03:38:38Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 3:52 UTC
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my choice would be raid 6 for a file server since you can lose two drives and it does not matter which set of two can die. from what i understand with raid 10 you can lose two drives but if they happen to be off the same raid 1 then you are a out of luck? any suggestions? basic file server with about 200gb of data and it would act as a single point of backup for other workstations and servers. thanks in advance.

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