Raid-5+spare or Raid-10?

[Peter Kiem]

> With 4 drives, I can either do raid-5 with a hotspare or raid-10.  Both
> will give me 160GB of space and theoretically can withstand the loss of
> 2 drives.

Looking at the pros and cons of both raid5+spare and raid10, I've
decided to configure as a raid10.

>From researching both, I think raid10 wins in read/write performance and
the ability to withstand multiple, simultaneous drive failures.  Also it
doesn't suffer as much performance degradation after a failure as does
raid5.

Thanks everyone for your input :)

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