Re: Re: Re: Re: Performance with one Sun T3 disk array

 <u577606201_at_spawnkill.ip-mobilphone.net> wrote:
>> It's the same until you lose a drive and need to resilver. If you mirror
>> then stripe the disk-pairs (RAID 1+0), then you only need to resilver
>> a single drive. If you stripe then mirror (RAID 0+1), then you need to
>> resilver the whole stripe.
>
>Sounds to me like (hardware) mirror first, stripe second would be the preferred
>method in general. Is this correct?

IMO, and if your system allows it, yes it is preferable. It can be more complex to set up though.

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