[GLLUG] RAID1 and Debian 7.2.0 installer

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Mon Oct 14 18:22:44 UTC 2013


On Mon, October 14, 2013 19:00, John Edwards wrote:
> Agreed. For any valuable data the cost of an extra disk to make
> RAID6 is usually worth it.

No.  RAID6, and for that matter, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and combinations
thereof, don't protect at all against an rm in the wrong place.

RAID levels that involve parity are highly questionable in any case. 
We're not in the 20th century anymore.





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