How many drives can I safely lose in a RAID-10 array?
Question: In a 4-drive RAID-10 setup, how many drives can I “safely” lose before the data becomes unrecoverable? It’s a bit unclear to me whether the setup provides one drive…
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Question: In a 4-drive RAID-10 setup, how many drives can I “safely” lose before the data becomes unrecoverable? It’s a bit unclear to me whether the setup provides one drive…
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