<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/11/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Lyon</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew.lyon@gmail.com">andrew.lyon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Anybody used RAID6 (perhaps on a mythtv system) ? I can enable the<br>option to compile a module for it but there isnt much documentation<br>out there about setup and use.<br><br>I was wondering if upgrade from raid5 to 6 was possible, apparently 6
<br>has better performance so I'd like to make active use of my hot spare<br>instead of leaving it running but idle.<br></blockquote></div><br>There is definitely no performance advantage for raid6 just extra redundancy that does not make much sense unless you have 5 or more drives in your raid array as with raid6 you have 2 drives for parity instead of 1 that you have with raid5.
<br><br>John<br>