RE: RAID10 explanation and mirroring setup

This is my understanding. It has been a couple of years sense I have dealt with the actual configuration of something like this You have Disks A-J RAID 10 Mirror A-F as V Mirror B-G as W Mirror C-H as X Mirror D-I as Y Mirror E-J as Z stripe across V W X Y Z. You lose disks A and H and system is still up RAID 01 Stripe A-B-C-D-E as Y Stripe F-G-H-I-J as Z Mirror Y-Z Lose disk A and H and I dont think the raid controller is smart enough to figure out it can use C instead of H and F instead of A. Will >===== Original Message From "Carlson@WHSmith" <carlson1@bellsouth.net> ===== >I've been following the RAID discussions and I'm having a bit of 'DBA >block' when it comes to understanding RAID10. RAID01 is pretty easy: >stripe, then mirror. Somehow the 'mirror, then stripe' explanation >seems a bit vague to me. Could someone point me in the right direction? > > ------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail has been sent to you courtesy of OperaMail, as a free service from Opera Software, makers of the award-winning Web Browser, Opera. Visit us at http://www.opera.com/ or our portal at: http://www.myopera.com/ Your free e-mail account is waiting at: http://www.operamail.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------